Fen Farmhouse
FEN FARMHOUSE, FEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182791
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fen Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FEN FARMHOUSE, FEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182791
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fen Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FEN FARMHOUSE, FEN STREET
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 FARMHOUSE, FEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buxhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00104 59158
Details
BUXHALL FEN STREET TM 05 NW
2/28 Fen Farmhouse - - II
House, C16 in two stages. 3 cell plan with lobby-entrance. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered in roughcast panels. Thatched roof, half-hipped to left and fully hipped to right. An axial chimney of red brick, the shaft rebuilt C19, and an C18 external chimney to left. C19 eyebrow casement dormers. 3-light C18 or early C19 casements with metal windows. C20 gabled plaintiled entrance porch with boarded and battened door. An early C16 core with 2 small cells has major alterations, including evidence for an inserted upper floor. Fragments of an apparent timber-framed chimney. A further bay was added to the left hand end in late C16; this work has tension- braced studwork and base-crucks supporting the half-hip. Coupled-rafter roof in 2 phases. A C18 or C19 lean-to extension to right, and a single-storey mid C20 pantiled extension to rear.
Listing NGR: TM0010459158
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279803
- 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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