THE DOWNS FARMHOUSE

THE DOWNS FARMHOUSE, THE DOWNS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1200113
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:: THE DOWNS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE DOWNS FARMHOUSE, THE DOWNS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1200113
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:: THE DOWNS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE DOWNS FARMHOUSE, THE DOWNS

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE DOWNS FARMHOUSE, THE DOWNS

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Stoke-by-Nayland
National Grid Reference:: TL 98634 36054

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/10/2012

TL 9836 24/833 5377

THE DOWNS Stoke-by-Nayland The Downs Farmhouse

GV II*

Former farmhouse. Early C16, with later extensions. Timber-framed and rendered; rear extensions partly faced in C19 red brick; plaintiled roofs. 2 storeys; 3-cell plan, with the original chimney-stack set externally on the rear wall of the hall, and a cross entry. The stack has been rebuilt in plain red brick. 4 window range: on the upper floor, 2-light casement windows with square-leaded panes, pintle hinges and small supporting brackets below the sills; on the ground floor, 2 small-paned sash windows in cased frames and one cross window with square leading. Edwardian 4-panelled entrance door, still in the cross-entry position, with a corresponding door on the rear wall: sunk panels, the top 2 glazed, flat pediment with shaped mock-Jacobean brackets. Frame in 4 bays, the main feature of the interior being the outstandingly fine carved and moulded ceiling to the central 2-bay ground-floor hall, some parts of which have been recently exposed. The main cross-beams have multiple roll-mouldings combined with 2 rows of running-leaf design which terminate in leaf-stops. At the intersection of these main beams is a large carving of a standing angel with outstretched wings, surrounded by an ornate canopy: he wears flowing robes, and carries a blank shield. The joists are of triangular section and also have multiple roll-mouldings which terminate in leaf-stops with a central motif, varying from one joist to another: flowers, fruit, figures and miniature trees. This amount of detail on joist stops is very unusual. The cambered fireplace lintel, slightly damaged by later plastering, has a lower narrow band of running-leaf carving and a wider upper band in a different leaf design, the 2 separated by a double band of embattled ornament; in the centre of the top band is a shield bearing the Mowbray crest of a lion rampant. The remaining framing of the main range is plain, with only the main components visible; the roof is inaccessible. The rear range is in 3 sections, that nearest the main house in 2 bays, into one of which a straight flight of stairs has been inserted. On the ground floor the main beam, cut back for later render, has supporting brackets and plain unchamfered joists.

Listing NGR: TL9863436054

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Legacy System number:: 278575
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.