SPRING FARMHOUSE

SPRING FARMHOUSE, COLDHAM LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1180592
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: SPRING FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SPRING FARMHOUSE, COLDHAM LANE

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Date:: 2002-09-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1180592
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: SPRING FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SPRING FARMHOUSE, COLDHAM LANE

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

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:: SPRING FARMHOUSE, COLDHAM LANE

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Gislingham
National Grid Reference:: TM0800571549

Details

TM 07 SE and TM 0771 2/28 and 6/28

GISLINGHAM COLDHAM LANE (SOUTH SIDE) Spring Farm House

II

Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16, extended late C16; floor inserted, part raised and extended in C17, altered C18 and C19. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled and corrugated sheet roofs. Originally a 2 bay open hall with storeyed lower bay, stack and parlour added at upper end to form a 3 cell cross passage plan. 4 bay kitchen/dairy wing attached to service end at rear to form a large L on plan. Early bays raised to uniform 2 storeys and attic, 1 storey and attic service wing. C16 addition to left projects slightly forward, a C19 lobby entrance with a 6 panelled part glazed architraved door, parlour has a glazed door and a first floor 2-light glazing bar casement. Earlier bays have original entrance blocked, 3-light part opening metal frame casements with C20 lights to former pantry, ground floor hoodboards, first floor hoodmoulds, sprocket eaves. Axial ridge stack to left of centre, rebuilt cap. Right gable end, ground floor rebuilt in brick, attic 3 light window, bargeboards. To rear ground floor rebuilt in brick with a 3- light part opening casement into hall, above a 2-light leaded casement. C17 service wing outer elevation has cross passage door to centre, kitchen to left has an external stack with offsets, 'IL 1809' in a tile, flanking oven outshuts, dairy to right with two 3-light glazing bar casements with hoodmoulds. Rear gable end pentice boards, shallower pitch to lower C18 roof. Inner elevation cross passage half door, kitchen 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, first floor part leaded 4-light window, dairy has 2 doors and a 2- light window to storage loft. Interior: 2 early service doorways from cross passage; C17 raised panelled screen to hall, close studding, inserted bar stop chamfered axial binding beam, parlour has closer studding and a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, traces of a 4 centred arched chamfered brick fireplace, stairs behind stack, original windows concealed, C18 and C19 doors. Hall and parlour chamber bar stop chamfered binding beams, original arched brace to cambered tie beam at lower end of hall, C17 cranked braces in raised section of former solar end wall. Parlour roof has cruck-like blades pegged to principals to replace tie beams identical to those at Starhouse Farm House, Clay Street, Thornham Magna C.P. (q.v.), lower butt and upper clasped purlins, arched windbraces, raised roof over hall has double staggered tenoned purlins with upper clasped purlins in 2 bays, arched windbraces. Service wing has jowled storey posts, a bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, straight arched braces to cambered tie beams, C18 roof with collars to principals, some side purlins.

Listing NGR: TM0800571549

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Legacy System number:: 279484
Legacy System:: LBS

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