Malthouse Farmhouse
MALTHOUSE FARMHOUSE, FEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182849
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Malthouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MALTHOUSE FARMHOUSE, FEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182849
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Malthouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MALTHOUSE 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:
- MALTHOUSE 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:
- Winston
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19006 61838
Details
WINSTON FEN STREET TM 16 SE 1/141 Malthouse Farmhouse
- II
Former farmhouse, c.1550-70. 3-cell plan with both lobby and cross-passage entrances. 2 storeys and attics. Timber framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with axial C16/C17 chimney of red brick. Mainly mid C20 casements; some ovolo-moulded mullioned windows of early C17. Late C18 or early C19 6- panelled entrance door, the lower panels fielded, the upper pair glazed. The hall has good roll-moulded ceiling joists and double-ogee moulded beams, a lintelled open fireplace and part of the plank-and-muntin cross-passage screen. In the parlour a similar ceiling has only the moulded bridging beam exposed. Full height newel staircase. Arch windbraced close studding. A chamber has full early C17 wainscotting and matching moulded plaster cornices. The service cell was remodelled and extended by one bay to right in C18. The butt purlin roof and attic floor structure are C17 alterations.
Listing NGR: TM1900661838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279760
- 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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