Elm Tree Farmhouse
ELM TREE FARMHOUSE, MELLIS GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181795
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ELM TREE FARMHOUSE, MELLIS GREEN
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- 2004-09-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/13411/01
- Rights:
- © Mr E.M Trendell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181795
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELM TREE FARMHOUSE, MELLIS GREEN
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:
- ELM TREE FARMHOUSE, MELLIS GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mellis
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10425 74767
Details
MELLIS MELLIS GREEN (NORTH SIDE) TM 17 SW 4/39 Elm Tree Farmhouse 29.7.55 (formerly listed as Elm Tree Farmhouse and barn)
GV 11*
House. C15 origins, late C16 cross wing, main range rebuilt in mid C17, altered C19. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched plaintiled roofs. An L on plan: originally an open hall with 3 bay parlour cross wing added to left, hall and service bays rebuilt retaining screens passage. All 2 storeys. Screens passage entrance to right of centre with a 6 raised panelled architraved door. 3-light glazing bar casements, part opening 6-lights to hall on-ground floor, ground floor hoodboards. Above entrance and below boxed eaves is a reset early C16 carved oriel soffit with an angel bearing De la Pole arms. Axial ridge stack to left between hall and parlour has 4 conjoined hexagonal shafts. Right gable end half glazed door, 2 small casements, exposed purlins. To left a gablet over C19 hip to parlour wing with lower ridge, 2 and 3-light casements, rear gable end pentice board, exposed plates and purlins, lean-to outshut on inner return. Main range to rear has scattered 2-light casements, first floor over hall original 4-light chamfered mullioned window, an inserted stack in service bay. Interior: C17 panelled screen with chamfered muntins to hall, close studding, stop chamfered storey posts, raised cross axial binding beam and joists, 2-light chamfered mullioned window opening, C18 corner cupboard, stop chamfered cross axial binding beam in service bay, stairs behind stack, parlour has restored C17 ornamental plaster ceiling divided into 2 sections by roll moulded cross axial binding beam, roll mouldings continue around panels with central fleur-de-lis and Tudor rose lozenges, scrolled pomegranate borders. First floor cranked and curved braces in walling, straight braces to tie beams, stop chamfered binding beam, original posts flank stack with tie beam cut. Parlour wing depressed brick arched fireplace, reverse curved bracing, reroofed, originally had arched braces to tie beams. Main range double purlin roof, lower butt purlins, upper purlins clasped by collars and halved principal rafters, arched windbraces. Attached to rear of service end a C19 outbuilding, weatherboarded and pantiled, mixed casements, stable doors, ridge stack (East Anglian Miscellany, 1930, pp33-36). -
Listing NGR: TM1042574767
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280328
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
East Anglian Miscellany in East Anglian Miscellany, (1930), 33-36
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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