Walnut Tree Farmhouse
WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, SEETHING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170571
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, SEETHING ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13411/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170571
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, SEETHING ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, SEETHING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 30669 97415
Details
TM 39 NW KIRSTEAD SEETHING ROAD
3/37 Walnut Tree Farmhouse 25.9.51
- II House. C16 and dated 1613 on bressumer beam of cross-wing. Rendered timber-frame. Tile roof. C16 2-cell plan with C17 cross-wing. 2 storey and attic facade with irregular fenestration, re-arranged during restoration of 1970's. Rendered plinth. Door of 4 raised and fielded panels with flat hood on consoles. C18 part-leaded 3-light casement to its right. 2-light leaded casement to first floor with small 2-light casement to its right over door; tall stair light of 1970's restoration; 2-light mullion under eaves. Gabled bay to right with 4-light casement with transom to ground and first floors. Dated bressumer beam. 4-light attic casement. Internal C18/C19 stack to left of door and off-centre axial stack with 4 lozenge-shaped shafts. Right-hand gable wall has a 5-light mullioned and transomed window with ovolo mouldings to the ground floor; 5-light casement to first floor. To rear, large 5-light casement to ground floor of cross wing, with moulded sill of earlier window; bressumer carved with crosses surrounded by diamonds; 3-light casement to attic. C20 plank door, 2 C18 3-light windows, one 4-light mullion probably of 70's restoration to ground floor of main range. One 3-light casement re-using ovolo moulded mullions, 2 C18 3-light casements, one 5-light diamond mullion. Single storey C18 wing to left hand gable. Interior. Timber-frame exposed. Cross-wing heavily timbered; ovolo mouldings to spine beam; chamfered joists; 4-centred arch brick fireplace. Blackening to timber-fame of gable in C16 range; roof timbers, not blackened, of C17 type with one row of butt-purlins and upper clasp- purlins with curved wind braces.
Listing NGR: TM3066997415
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 227382
- 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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