Dairy Farmhouse

DAIRY FARMHOUSE, GREAT COMMON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183346
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Dairy Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
DAIRY FARMHOUSE, GREAT COMMON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183346
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Dairy Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
DAIRY FARMHOUSE, GREAT COMMON

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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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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:
DAIRY FARMHOUSE, GREAT COMMON

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 37486 86937

Details

ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW GREAT COMMON TM 38 NE 2/10 - - Dairy Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Circa 1600, with later additions. 2 storeys and attics to part, 2 storeys and I½ storeys to remainder. Timber-framed and rendered; clay pantiles to main range; late C19 red brick, dentil cornice, and black glazed pantiles to the lower part on the west. On the east, a red brick gable-end incorporating a chimney-stack: the bricks are laid in English Bond, with signs of alteration and repair; a later doorway and window have been inserted, and a small upper original window, with brick mullions, blocked. A later stack with a plain red brick shaft is at the junction of the 2 halves of the house. Projecting forward from the west end is a small C18 13-storey timber-framed wing, rendered, with black glazed pantiles, which formerly had a cellar below. Old 3-light casement windows with transomes, pintle hinges, and the hooks for former external shutters; door with 4 flush panels, the top 2 glazed. Good, plain timbering exposed inside, mainly on the upper floor; arched braces in the side walls; some blocked original windows; a main beam on the ground floor with ovolo-moulding. Roof in 5 bays, with clasped and unstepped butt purlins, and cambered collars. The basic plan is apparently of a 2-cell end chimney house, with the present entry in its original position, but the arrangement at the west end is not clear: a deep, narrow beam in front of the stack on each floor, and a small section of framing beyond it, indicate that the house extended further westwards, probably with a smoke-bay. The late C19 extension further west is a reconstruction of earlier timber-framing: the chimney-stack has C17 and C18 brick in it, and an unusual pair of faggot ovens, one above the other, all of which antedate the brick exterior.

Listing NGR: TM3748686937

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
282226
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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