Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197965
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197965
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM3299082857
Details
TM 38 SW
4/20
1.9.53
SOUTH ELMHAM
ALL SAINTS CHURCH LANE
ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS
Church Farmhouse
GV
II
Former farmhouse. Early C16, with later alterations. 2 storeys and attics.
Timber-framed, plastered in panels, plaintiles. An internal chimney-stack
with 4 attached sawtooth shafts. Various casement windows; 2 plank doors.
The 2 bays to the north of the stack have a chamfered main beam and joists on
the ground floor and a cambered tie-beam with supporting arched braces to the
open truss above. On the upper surface of the tie-beam is the housing for a
crown-post, and there is a similar housing in another tie-beam against the
stack. The stack has 2 back-to-back hearths on the ground floor with plain
timber lintels, and beside it is a very fine newel stair. The doorway linking
the 2 ground floor rooms has a chamfered surround and plain arched spandrels.
On the upper floor, there are cranked reversed braces at the corners and long
jowls to the main posts. One 3-light and one 4-light original window with
hollow-chamfer moulding to the mullions. 2 upper fireplaces: one with a
timber lintel, and the brick coloured and tuck-pointed, the other with a hob
grate inserted below the lintel. The upper ceilings are of later date, with
joists on edge. The roof, in 7 bays, has 2 rows of butt purlins with the
collars of the trusses set high, and with intermediate collars between the
trusses at a lower level. This roof is clearly a replacement over the 2
northern bays. The house stands on a very large rectangular moated site, and
is said to replace a former manor house.
Listing NGR: TM3299082857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282280
- 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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