Whitings Farmhouse
WHITINGS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180535
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITINGS FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180535
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITINGS 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.
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:
- WHITINGS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mendlesham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10252 64208
Details
MENDLESHAM TM 16 SW 5/33 Whitings Farmhouse -
-- II Former farmhouse. C15 with C16-C17 alterations; later C17 in-line addition to right. Timber framed and plastered. Roof thatched to front and pantiled to rear. Core comprises a former open hall house, probably of 3-cell form. 1½ storeys. Various windows, mainly casements. One sash window with glazing bars to hall. Slatted windows to extreme right. One dormer. 2 boarded doors. Stack has white brick shaft, partly rendered, set just to rear of roof ridge. Interior. C15 studding shows evidence for diamond-mullioned windows. One tension brace visible in rear wall. Any open truss removed and the massive posts carrying it cut back flush with wall. Blocked front cross-entry doorway with 4-centred arch. Remains of similar doorway in service partition and another re-positioned against stack. Substantial plain joists in service end. Inserted hall ceiling has cased bridging beam and closely-set heavy plain joists. Lintol over hall fireplace is probably C17. Roof timbers mostly concealed; a few sooted rafters visible behind stack. Later end, latterly used as a dairy, has plain full-height studding and plain joists set flat. This end becoming derelict at time of survey (September 1987).
Listing NGR: TM1025264208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281618
- 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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