Tan Office Farmhouse

TAN OFFICE FARMHOUSE, TAN OFFICE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180982
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Tan Office Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TAN OFFICE FARMHOUSE, TAN OFFICE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180982
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Tan Office Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TAN OFFICE FARMHOUSE, TAN OFFICE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TAN OFFICE FARMHOUSE, TAN OFFICE

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 10958 63475

Details

MENDLESHAM TAN OFFICE TM 16 SW 5/71 Tan Office Farmhouse -

GV II Originally farmhouse, later a unit house associated with the adjacent farmhouse which stands corner-to-corner with it (qv. Item 5/70). Now a separate dwelling. Late C16. Restored 1976-80. Timber framed and rendered, plaintiled roof. Originally 2-cell, end chimney house with cross-entry; service cell to right now missing. 2 storeys and attic. Small-paned casement windows, gabled porch with boarded door, all of 1970's. Stack at left gable end has plain shaft. Interior. Good quality exposed framing. Evidence for original windows, 2 secondary upper windows with ovolo mullions. Service partition at gable end shows evidence for central doorways into former service rooms. Hall ceiling has closely-spaced chamfered joists. Plain joists to upper ceilings. Roof has a single row of wind-braced clasped purlins.

Listing NGR: TM1095863475

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
281656
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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