Lime Tree Farmhouse
LIME TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180927
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LIME TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10284/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180927
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lime Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIME TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD 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:
- LIME TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Laxfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 27777 74068
Details
LAXFIELD FRESSINGFIELD ROAD TM 27 SE
4/48 Lime Tree Farmhouse -
-- II
Farmhouse. In 2 sections: early C16 hall range to west with one-bay addition, perhaps C17, at service end; parlour block to east added c.1600. Timber framed and plastered; glazed black pantiles to hall range, plaintiles to parlour addition. 2 storeys and attic. C18-C19 small-paned casement windows; in the hall range a C16 window with cavetto mullions. C19 6-panel door, the upper 2 panels glazed. At its junction with the earlier range the parlour block has an oblong stack; the base contains a recessed panel with an upper sawtooth brick course and with moulded work above. Gable end of hall range has canted ground floor bay of c.1900. The hall has a moulded bridging beam with run-out stops, arched-braced to the wall posts, and heavy joists, also with run-out stops. Moulded and embattled girding beam set into the stack. Fireplace lintol has similar decoration, now mutilated. Exposed first floor studding with evidence for original windows. Plain crown-post roof, most of the collar purlin now removed. Parlour contains typical work of c.1600, with reversed bracing and an ovolo-moulded bridging beam to ground floor. Newel stairs to first floor removed mid C20. Remains of medieval moat.
Listing NGR: TM2777474065
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280168
- 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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