Turkey Farmhouse

TURKEY FARMHOUSE, B1080

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203958
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Turkey Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TURKEY FARMHOUSE, B1080

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203958
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Turkey Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TURKEY FARMHOUSE, B1080

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:
TURKEY FARMHOUSE, B1080

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Freston
National Grid Reference:
TM1699038137

Details

TM 13 NE
4/1

FRESTON
B1080
Turkey Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Two main builds, C17 and C18 with later addition and
alterations. Timber-framed, clad in painted brick in Flemish bond with later range
timber-framed clad in weatherboarding. Plain tile roofs with pantiles to low addition
to right. Single-storey and attic lobby-entry range with later 2-storey range to
rear forming L-shape. Single-storey and attic range: 3 bays with low later addition
to right. Off-centre plank door. C19 casement to right, two C20 casements to left.
3 gabled dormers with casements. Lower half of stack rendered. Steeply-pitched
roof. To rear exposed ground sill on brick plinth with weatherboarding to right.
2-storey range: brick plinth. Door to rear in angle between two ranges. Casement
windows. External stack to end. Road front: 6-pane sash to ground floor, one small
casement and one 6-pane sash above. Interior, single storey and attic range: stopped
chamfered spine and cross beams with exposed tenoned-in joists to part. Fireplace
in narrow red brick with arched recesses at sides. 1st floor, cambered tie beam and
wall plates, no posts visible. Large stepped stack. 2-storey range: C18 pine corner
cupboard with flanking pilasters and keyed round arch. Upper and lower doors have
raised and fielded panelling and HL hinges. 1st floor, chamfered post and wall plates
visible.

Listing NGR: TM1699038137

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
277280
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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