Poplar Farmhouse
POPLAR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198442
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198442
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPLAR 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:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cretingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 23218 59648
Details
CRETINGHAM KITTLE'S CORNER TM 25 NW 4/38 Poplar Farmhouse 16/3/66 - II
Farmhouse. C16. Timber framed with colourwashed render (which is dated on a roundel on the front of the house T.C./1755) with a roof of machine-made pantiles, formerly thatched. Two storeys. Entrance front: doorway at right which has 4 lower panels and one upper glazed panel. C19 gabled porch in front of this with lattice trellises to the sides. To right is a 2-light C20 casement and to left two 3-light C19 casements. The first floor has two 3-light C19 casements. The front pargetting originally had woolknot patterns now overlaid by later patching. Portion of brickwork at left of centre, perhaps indicating a blocked doorway. Hipped roof with a chimney stack at left of centre of 3 flues with decorative bands. The right hand end has a 3-light C19 first floor casement. The left hand side has one ground floor window. Rear: slightly to right of centre is a projecting gabled wing which has C20 fenestration with a single-light window at right and a cross window above. It may have been a staircase or porch wing. To the left flank is C20 fenestration and at right a C19 lean- to with brick walling, a plank door at left and a 3-light casement at right. Chimney stack of 2 flues to the ridge. To left of the wing is a 3- light C20 casement and at far left a ½-glazed C20 door. Blank walling at first floor level. Interior: Screens passage, the wooden screen having moulded muntins and no cross rails. To the other side of the passage a large room shows beams with mortice holes indicating two service rooms, although much of the timber has been altered. The present hall has a chamfered bressumer with end stops, central ceiling beam with shallow chamfers and die-out end stops, jowled wall posts and close studding to the walls with wattle-and- daub infill. Further close studding to the first floor rooms. Basked- arched fireplace and blocked window to further rooms, jowled wall posts and cambered ties, with arched braces.
Listing NGR: TM2321859648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286452
- 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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