Great Oak Farmhouse
GREAT OAK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182620
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great Oak Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT OAK FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182620
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great Oak Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT OAK FARMHOUSE
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:
- GREAT OAK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wickham Skeith
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09319 68397
Details
WICKHAM SKEITH TM 06 NE 2/144 Great Oak Farmhouse -
-- II Farmhouse. Late C14/early C15 with C16 in-line parlour addition to left. Timber framed, part plastered, the front cased in whitewashed brick. Thatched roof. 3 cells, the earlier work comprising a former open hall and associated service end. 1½ storeys. Various casement windows. Ground floor has 3 3- light mullion and transom windows without glazing bars, under segmental arches. 3 eyebrow dormers, one with an C18 3-light square-leaded window. Lobby entry has disused door with 6 raised fielded panels. Stack has rebuilt shaft. One-storey colourwashed brick lean-to on right gable end. Interior. Truss over former open hall has front half of massive cambered tie beam with intact brace. It carries an octagonal crown-post: base mutilated, capital with a single roll moulding above which there is thick 4-way bracing. Intact coupled rafters, heavily sooted. Lower end wall of hall has widely-spaced studding with down braces from a central stud to the tie beam. Remainder of medieval frame mostly concealed. Service partition removed; the cross-beam which carried it is hollow-moulded. Inserted floor in hall has ovolo-moulded main beam, the joists concealed. Stack inserted in upper end of hall, probably when parlour cell was added. Timbers in parlour cell largely concealed; there is a central cambered tie beam with missing braces. Roof over this section not examined.
Listing NGR: TM0931968397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281729
- 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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