Leatherjacket Farmhouse

LEATHERJACKET FARMHOUSE, A12

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1198460
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:
Leatherjacket Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LEATHERJACKET FARMHOUSE, A12

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1198460
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:
Leatherjacket Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LEATHERJACKET FARMHOUSE, A12

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LEATHERJACKET FARMHOUSE, A12

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Stratford St. Mary
National Grid Reference:
TM 05621 35491

Details

TM 03 NE STRATFORD ST MARY A12 (south side) 2/10 Leatherjacket Farmhouse 22.2.55 - II House. Probably late C15 with C16-C17 and later alterations. 1622 on dormer window. Timber-framed, rendered, with some pargetting in panels. Plain tile roof, red brick stacks. Probably 2 bays originally, now 3-bay lobby-entry, the left bay being an addition. One storey and attic. Garden front: 2 half-glazed doors. 2 C20 casements and small window to left. 3 gabled dormers with casements and bargeboards. Ridge stack and later stack to left. Steeply-pitched roof with bargeboards to gables. Road front has dormer window dated 1622. Interior: studded walls on plinth. Chamfered beams and exposed joists of inserted ceiling to centre and right end rooms. Run out stops to bridging beam and step stops to joists of centre room. Partly rebuilt inglenook to inserted stack, chamfered bressummer to centre room. Chamfered basket-arched rendered fireplace to room to right. Newel stair against stack. Jowled post and truncated tie beam adjacent to stack. 1st floor studded partition wall between centre and left rooms has cambered tie beam and blocked arched panel which may be a former window. Room to right chamfered basket-arched fireplace and chamfered beam with tongue stops.

Listing NGR: TM0562135491

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
277209
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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