Red House Farmhouse

RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BECKS GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183299
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Red House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BECKS GREEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183299
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Red House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BECKS GREEN 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RED HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BECKS GREEN ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
St. Andrew, Ilketshall
National Grid Reference:
TM 38602 85132

Details

ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW BECK'S GREEN ROAD TM 38 NE 2/4 Red House Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Early C16 and early C19; L-shaped plan. 1½-storey, timber-framed rear range, encased in C19 red brick; 2-storey red brick front range; black glazed pantiles. The brick of the front range is laid in Flemish Bond; plain gables and 2 end chimney stacks. Timber dentil cornice. 3 window range: 3- light mullion-and-transome style casements with segmental arched heads to frames and surrounds; on the ground floor a 2-light window in the same style replaces the central entrance door. The rear range has an internal chimney- stack with a plain shaft of Tudor red brick, corbelled at the head; 2 gabled and weatherboarded dormers with 2-light casement windows; the remainder 3- light Edwardian casement windows in mullion-and-transome style; half-glazed door under a C20 open gabled porch. 3-cell plan, with timbers exposed inside. The 2 central bays to the right of the stack, have heavy joists set flat, with chamfer and run-off stops, and a chamfered main beam with curved stops and bar. The open fireplace has a plain lintel. An old panelled screen was removed and destroyed during recent restoration. The end wall of the frame has been cut away at its junction with the C19 front. Both the side walls have been raised; on the south the roof is now higher than on the north. Roof-structure concealed. The house appears to have been storied from the outset.

Listing NGR: TM3860285132

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Legacy System number:
282220
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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