Brookhall Farmhouse
BROOKHALL FARMHOUSE, GRAY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199351
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brookhall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKHALL FARMHOUSE, GRAY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199351
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brookhall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKHALL FARMHOUSE, GRAY 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:
- BROOKHALL FARMHOUSE, GRAY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wissett
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 37071 81363
Details
TM 38 SE WISSETT GRAY'S LANE
2/59 Brookhall Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. C16 core, C19 casing. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed, encased in red brick which is not all of one date: at the south end a break in the line of the wall indicates a separate section, and a small stone panel dated 1824 is set into the south gable wall; at the north end, the gable and side walls have blue headers. Black glazed pantiles. Mid-C19 crow-stepping to both gables and the 2-storey porch on the east (garden) front. One internal and one rear stack, both with 2 octagonal shafts, moulded bases and starred caps (cf. Ashtree House, Item 5/60). C20 replacement windows: part 3-light mullion- and-transome type, part small-paned sash style with top-opening lights. 2 doors on west side with 4 flush panels; a 6-panelled door with raised fielded panels to the porch on the garden side. 2 gabled dormers with fluted bargeboards. Basic 3-cell internal chimney plan. The interior has some exposed timbering and one ground-floor ceiling has a heavy main beam and joists, all chamfered. The house stands on the remains of a large, irregularly moated site, immediately on the parish boundary.
Listing NGR: TM3707181363
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282133
- 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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