Fen House
FEN HOUSE, FEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182656
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fen House
- Statutory Address:
- FEN HOUSE, FEN LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182656
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fen House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FEN HOUSE, FEN LANE
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:
- FEN HOUSE, FEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earl Stonham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09325 57382
Details
EARL STONHAM FEN LANE TM 05 NE 4/98 Fen House - - II
Former farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16, altered and extended C20. A 3-cell open hall house. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Hipped thatched roof with axial chimney of red brick. Mainly late C20 casements. Thatched gabled C20 entrance porch with boarded door. A substantially-built and relatively unaltered late-mediaeval house. The open hall is in two bays, the open truss having a cambered tie-beam, with massive chamfered arch-braces springing from pilasters rising from floor level (one brace is missing). Tension-braced close studwork and heavy unchamfered joists. Good complete smoke-blackened coupled-rafter roof. In late C16/early C17 a chimney was placed in the cross entry and an upper floor of chamfered joists inserted into the hall; the service rooms were united, and the house functionally "reversed" - the service accommodation being placed at the right-hand end. The rear wing to right is a C20 extension, possibly remodelling a pre-existing structure.
Listing NGR: TM0932557382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279347
- 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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