Mill Farmhouse

MILL FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096028
Date first listed:
18-Dec-2002
List Entry Name:
Mill Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
MILL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096028
Date first listed:
18-Dec-2002
List Entry Name:
Mill Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
MILL FARMHOUSE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Assington
National Grid Reference:
TL9354136864

Details

922/0/10058
18-DEC-02

ASSINGTON
MILL FARMHOUSE

II

Farmhouse. c.1700 with later alterations. Colourwashed and rendered timber frame and brick with thatched roof, at present covered in corrugated sheeting. Brick ridge stack to centre left and another on rear slope. 3-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys. 4-window range at first floor of 3 2-light horizontal sliding sash windows and a single-light window to centre left over the door. On ground floor 2 3-light casements and a 4-light casement to far right. 4-panel door with pentice hood over. Left end is clapboarded and has an attic 2-light window. Right end has a lean-to, door, casements and clapboarding. Rear has a C20 2-storey extension with a lean-to, and another lean-to with a single-light and a 2-light horizontal sliding sash window over.
INTERIOR. Chamfered bridging beams. Large wide brick stack with back-to-back fireplaces, the bressumer of one visible with a later fireplace in front, the other blocked. Partition between the 2 right units removed. C19 staircase. First floor has old boards, and 2-panel and plank doors. Some tall panel framing visible. Small breaks made in rear framing to gain access to rear extension. Bridging and other beams visible to first floor. Roof of clasped purlin type, probably c.1800 but appearing to re-use some pairs of rafters from earlier roof.
This farmhouse retains its main structure and plan form together with other features such as the horizontal sliding sash windows and the large stack.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
489918
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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