Fairstead Farmhouse
FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, EYE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181280
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fairstead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, EYE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181280
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fairstead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, EYE 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:
- FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, EYE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hoxne
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1753376524
Details
HOXNE EYE ROAD
TM 17 NE
2/76 Fairstead Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now subdivided into 2 dwellings. An early C17 rebuilding of an
early C16 house. Restored 1983-5. Timber framed and roughcast-rendered under
a slated roof. 2 storeys and attics. A single long 4-cell range. Continuous
jetty to south, supported on plain brackets; the bracket at the east end is
carved with leaf and flower motifs in the spandrel. Within the porch, one
buttress-shaft and part of the moulded bressummer are visible. C19 casement
windows with a single horizontal glazing bar to each light. To east, leading
into the cross-passage, is a single storey mid C17 gabled porch, now without a
doorway. To west is a C19 doorway with moulded architrave, 4-panel door and
narrow oblong overlight. 2 gabled full dormers. Internal stack with rendered
shaft; late C17 stack against west gable end. C19 brick addition to east; C18
rear (north) lean-to. All 4 ground floor rooms have axial bridging beams and
chamfered joists set flat. Some plain C17 first floor studding. Porch has
one blocked 8-light mullioned window and evidence for another in the gable
end; the entrance was on the east side. The roof over the west half of the
range is re-used, evidently from a narrower range as there are scarf joints at
the lower ends of all the principal rafters. It is in 4 1/2 bays, with 2 rows
of butt purlins and collars carrying oblong king-posts to a ridge piece. One
truss has long curved collar braces, meeting at the centre. Evidence for
cross partitions, redundant when the roof was re-used; the existing partition
is unrelated to the roof structure. Upper floor and roof of east half of
range not examined.
Listing NGR: TM1753376524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281017
- 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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