Red House Farmhouse

RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181071
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Red House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181071
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Red House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Thornham Magna
National Grid Reference:
TM 09908 71488

Details

THORNHAM MAGNA GISLINGHAM ROAD (NORTH TM 07 SE SIDE)

2/71 Red House Farm House - - II

Farmhouse, built as part of Home Farm to Thornham Estate. Mid C18, extended C19, altered C20. Red brick with flared headers. Hipped plaintiled roof. 5 bay lobby entrance plan with 2 wings to rear to form a half H. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor: central entrance in a projecting C20 brick porch, 8 panelled door, tall 2-light glazing bar casements in shallow reveals with segmental heads. Offset plinth, continuous plat band to first floor with four 2-light glazing bar casements, central leaded cross casement. Boxed eaves. Central ridge stack. 3 bay returns with mixed casements; to left French windows, a first floor lattice leaded window and a 2-light box dormer, to right a C20 entrance with a half glazed architraved door. To rear 3 gables, taller outer gables have moulded kneelers to coped parapets, an internal end stack to left, central gable to C19 infill block with recessed segmental headed sashes, a lower pantiled roof, stack in left valley. Interior: ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, runout chamfered joists.

Listing NGR: TM0990871488

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
279527
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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