Butterfly Farmhouse
BUTTERFLY FARMHOUSE, BOROUGH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197984
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butterfly Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERFLY FARMHOUSE, BOROUGH LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14640/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197984
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butterfly Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERFLY FARMHOUSE, BOROUGH 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:
- BUTTERFLY FARMHOUSE, BOROUGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Finborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00364 56361
Details
GREAT FINBOROUGH BOROUGH LANE TM 05 NW
2/111 Butterfly Farmhouse
II*
Former farmhouse, circa 1570 with alterations of c.1620. Original house of 3- cell cross-entry form; a 2-cell cross-wing added to north end c.1620. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered; the textured daub-plaster has been maintained in the traditional manner. The cross-wing has ovolo-moulded oversailing gable tiebeams. Plaintiled roofs; an axial C17 chimney of buff brick, the shaft rebuilt with original bricks in c.1970; another axial C17 chimney in the crosswing with a sawtooth shaft of red brick. Windows of many periods: several C16 diamond-mullioned windows at 1st storey, now glazed. A large ovolo-mullioned and transomed early C17 staircase window; a similar chamber window of oriel form with moulded cill. Mid C19 windows with iron small-pane casements; some C20 casements. Boarded C19 entrance door. Some original or c.1600 pargetting now on an internal wall: highly textured large panels with sunk strapwork designs; of interest because an unusually early example of pargetting. A good dogleg staircase of c.1620 was placed in the earlier service cell. A large fragment of C17 painted wall decoration in the form of vertical strips in one chamber. Several C17 arched fireplaces. The C17 cross-wing comprises a kitchen and parlour, both with good open fireplaces, the former is constructed of very heavy framing, including unchamfered floorjoists and fireplace lintel, reused from an early C16 structure. Wind-braced clasped-purlin roofs. Suffolk Houses: Eric Sandon, 1977.
Listing NGR: TM0036456361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279886
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sandon, E, Suffolk Houses: A Study of Domestic Architecture, (1977)
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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