Old Hall Farmhouse
OLD HALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198120
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HALL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198120
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HALL FARMHOUSE
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:
- OLD HALL FARMHOUSE
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:
- TM 31557 82967
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM ST. NICHOLAS TM 38 SW ALL SAINTS & ST. NICHOLAS
4/38 Old Hall Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. C15 core, altered and extended in C16 and C17. 2 storeys; attic to part; 3-cell form. Timber-framed, roughcast render, brick to the ground floor on the left gable wall; clay pantiles. An internal chimney-stack with a very large rebuilt square red brick shaft, band, and corbelled white brick top. Casement windows, mainly 3-light with transomes and all with C20 diamond-leaded panes. 2 C20 doors: one, into a lobby entrance, with a rustic timber porch; the other, in a cross-entry position, in a recessed brick porch. The interior falls into 3 sections, the middle 1½ bays being the earliest, with the core of an open hall, from which the roof structure and the tie-beam of the open truss were removed later, and the walls heightened. The original timbers are still smoke-blackened, but little evidence of the form of the hall survives. A chimney-stack was inserted at its upper end in the mid C16, and a new parlour block added. This has a fine exposed ceiling on the ground floor, with double roll-mouldings to the main beam and joists and run-off stops. Close-studding with cranked braces to the upper rooms, and an original upper ceiling. On the rear wall, a blocked 4-light window with unusual wide roll- moulded mullions. Between the parlour and hall, a square- headed ovolo- moulded doorway with formalised roses at the base of the jambs, and a similar doorway, much weathered, at the rear of the cross-entry. The service area has been enlarged and raised in the C17, but still has fragments of mediaeval work. The remains of mullioned windows with wide sills, and a further doorway, now reset, with 4-centred arched head and carved spandrels, all from the rear wall, suggest that the house formerly faced the other way. A long 1½ storey lean-to now runs along the back. The house contains a number of good moulded C16 plank doors, all different, with original hinges.
Listing NGR: TM3155782967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282298
- 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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