Top Farmhouse
TOP FARMHOUSE, BECCLES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182733
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOP FARMHOUSE, BECCLES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182733
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP FARMHOUSE, BECCLES 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:
- TOP FARMHOUSE, BECCLES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mettingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM3675689810
Details
TM 38 NE
4/16
METTINGHAM
BECCLES ROAD
Top Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. C17 with C19 additions at both ends. Red brick, with cement
render to the rear (north). Along the main front is a first floor corbelled
string course, raised segmentally over the ground floor openings, similar to
the one on the adjacent Mettingham Hall. Pantiled roof with glazed black
tiles to the front. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows, C18 mullion and transom
casements. Central doorway with re-used panelled oak door. 3 mid C20 gabled
dormers. Gable stacks. The left gable end has been largely rebuilt but there
are 2 original first floor window openings (blocked) with drip-moulds to the
same design as the string course. The right gable is C18. There is a first
floor stuccoed 4-centre arched fireplace with quoined surround and the remains
of lozenge panels each side of the arch (cf. a fireplace in Mettingham Hall);
a similar fireplace below has lost its stucco render. The roof has 2 rows of
butt purlins and low collars with solid bracing to the principal rafters, an
unusual variant. The house is said to have stood within the same moated
enclosure as Mettingham Hall.
Listing NGR: TM3675689810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282167
- 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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