Nos. 56 and 56A, SPARKES FARM

56 AND 56A, SPARKES FARM, ERISWELL, IP27 9BB

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1193811
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Nos. 56 and 56A, SPARKES FARM
Statutory Address:
56 AND 56A, SPARKES FARM, ERISWELL, IP27 9BB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1193811
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Nos. 56 and 56A, SPARKES FARM
Statutory Address 1:
56 AND 56A, SPARKES FARM, ERISWELL, IP27 9BB

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:
56 AND 56A, SPARKES FARM, ERISWELL, IP27 9BB

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Eriswell
National Grid Reference:
TL 72083 78967

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/02/2017


TL 77 NW,
6/18

ERISWELL,
LITTLE ERISWELL,
Nos. 56 and 56a Sparkes Farm

(Formerly listed as: Nos. 56 & 56a, Mill Farmhouse)

II

Two houses, formerly farmhouse. Early C18 with alterations of mid C19. Two storeys
formerly with attic. Timber-framed and clad at the front with asbestos cement
sheets (when surveyed), formerly rendered. The gable to the road is of flint and brick rubble
with quoins of red and gault brick and parapet gable. Thatched roof with
gable and axial chimneys of red brick. Mid C19 casements (one small-pane sash
window). 4-panelled entrance door with architrave and cornice on console-
brackets. A small cross-wing of flint rubble and gault brick, and extensions
to the rear, were added mid C19.


Listing NGR: TL7208378967

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
275827
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.

Ordnance survey map of Nos. 56 and 56A, SPARKES FARM

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