Bluegate Farmhouse

BLUEGATE FARMHOUSE, BLUEGATE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1194328
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1990
Statutory Address:
BLUEGATE FARMHOUSE, BLUEGATE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1194328
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1990
Statutory Address 1:
BLUEGATE FARMHOUSE, BLUEGATE LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
BLUEGATE FARMHOUSE, BLUEGATE LANE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Capel St. Mary
National Grid Reference:
TM 09493 37174

Details

TM 03 NE CAPEL ST MARY BLUEGATE LANE 3/42 Bluegate Farmhouse 23.8.90 II

House. C16 with later alterations. Research by present owner suggests a date circa 1560. Timber framed and plastered. Red pantiled roof, lower level hip to right crosswing with forward leanto extension. Off centre left and far right chimney stacks. 2 storeys. 5 first floor and 4 ground floor small paned vertically sliding sash windows, circular first floor window to right of C20 gabled porch. Internally much of the frame is concealed but visible features include, heavy chamfered bridging joists, halved arch braces to partition walls, jowled storey posts, rear mullion window, arch braced side purlin roof, arched braces to crosswing. Formerly owned by Golding Constable, father of the painter John Constable.

Listing NGR: TM0949337174

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278816
Legacy System:
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