Poplar Farmhouse

POPLAR FARMHOUSE, GREAT GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183032
Date first listed:
09-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Poplar Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
POPLAR FARMHOUSE, GREAT GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183032
Date first listed:
09-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Poplar Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
POPLAR FARMHOUSE, GREAT GREEN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POPLAR FARMHOUSE, GREAT GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Thurston
National Grid Reference:
TL 93841 66106

Details

TL 96 NW THURSTON GREAT GREEN

1/144 Poplar Farmhouse -

-- II

Farmhouse, mid C16 with alterations of early C19. 2 storeys. 3-cell lobby entrance plan. Timber-framed and plastered. Slated C19 roof: an axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C19 of red brick with quoins of gault brick. Early C19 small-pane casements. Early C19 gabled entrance porch with slated roof and 6-panelled door. A rear service wing added in early C19: Gault brick. Slated roof. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Horizontally-sliding small-pane casements at 1st storey and casements with segmental heads below. An open porch in the re-entrant angle has a swept sheet-metal roof. Interior: In the hall is some heavy mid C16 exposed framing. Main beams with broad chamfers, and large unchamfered floor joists. A wide lintelled open fireplace has piers of limestone blocks probably taken from the Abbey of St Edmundsbury after its dissolution in 1539. The blocks have shafts of C12/C13 appearance. Remainder of timber framing mainly concealed.

Listing NGR: TL9384166106

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281247
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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