Abbots Mead
ABBOTS MEAD, EARL SOHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182775
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Abbots Mead
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTS MEAD, EARL SOHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182775
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Abbots Mead
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOTS MEAD, EARL SOHAM 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:
- ABBOTS MEAD, EARL SOHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pettaugh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17430 59809
Details
PETTAUGH EARL SOHAM ROAD TM 15 NE 4/132 Abbots Mead
- II
Former farmhouse, c.1500. 2 storeys. A 3-cell open hall house. Timber- framed and plastered. Thatched half-hipped roof; an axial late C17 chimney of red brick (recapped in C19), and two C19 end chimneys. Mid C20 oak casements with leaded lights. C20 plaintiled gabled entrance porch with boarded door. The 2-bay open hall has an open truss with a cambered tie-beam, the arch- braces chamfered and springing from shafts with well-moulded capitals. Complete smoke-blackened coupled-rafter roof. Good close studding, with convex arch windbracing at the corners. One blocked rear cross-entry doorway has a 4-centred arched head. Some original diamond-mullioned windows. Unusually prominent assembly marks. Heavy unchamfered floor joists at the parlour end, and an early ladder stair. Both end walls of the open hall originally had infill omitted at high level, permitting heat (and smoke) into the end chambers. A fireplace was placed against the cross-entry in C17 and an upper floor of chamfered joists was inserted in the hall. C19 alterations include a single-bay extension to left. Formerly known as Valley Farmhouse.
Listing NGR: TM1743059809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279751
- 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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