Mendlesham House
MENDLESHAM HOUSE, OAK FARM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180751
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Mendlesham House
- Statutory Address:
- MENDLESHAM HOUSE, OAK FARM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180751
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Mendlesham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MENDLESHAM HOUSE, OAK FARM 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:
- MENDLESHAM HOUSE, OAK FARM ROAD
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 11048 64609
Details
MENDLESHAM OAK FARM ROAD TM 16 SW 5/58 Mendlesham House - -- II Former farmhouse. First half of C16. Later wing, perhaps C17, to rear. Timber framed and plastered, shallow-pitched concrete-pantiled roof. 3-cell form. 2 storeys. 3 windows, mid C20 casements with small panes. Internal stack has axial shaft of narrow brick. Later stack against left gable end. Mid C20 doorway at rear. Interior. A good quality 5-bay frame with heavy studding and tension bracing. Evidence for massive tie beam braces to open trusses over hall and parlour chambers, the tie beams and original roof lost. Hall and parlour ceilings have heavy cross beams, the joists concealed. The hall ceiling beams are knee-braced to buttress-shafted wallposts with moulded caps, an unusual feature. Blocked rear cross-entry doorway has wide 4-centred arch. Good intact service partition, the paired central doorways with moulded jambs and hollow-chamfered 4-centred arches; Front wall of parlour chamber has sill of former oriel window. An arched doorway at the rear on the upper floor may have led to a stair wing. Some evidence in parlour for an original timber flue. The present stack is a later insertion into the hall cell, with back-to-back open fireplaces on the ground floor. 2-bay rear wing, the upper floor supported by secondary timbers set in front of the wallposts. Formerly known as Hill Farmhouse.
Listing NGR: TM1104864609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281643
- 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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