Ark Farmhouse
ARK FARMHOUSE, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230457
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ark Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ARK FARMHOUSE, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230457
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ark Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARK FARMHOUSE, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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:
- ARK FARMHOUSE, CHEDBURGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whepstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 81546 58753
Details
TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD
4/125 Ark Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Noah's Ark 14.7.55 under General) II
Farmhouse, 1612 on plaque on chimney. 2 storeys, 3-cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed and rendered with scratched oblong panels. Slated roof with axial chimney of red brick having saw-tooth pattern flues on square base with inset central panel and the date 1612 on a moulded terracotta plaque. This is the construction date of the chimney and possibly also of the house. Mid C20 casements. C19 2-storey entrance porch with gabled slated roof; hood-moulded casement at upper floor; open C20 slated canopy on timber posts.
Listing NGR: TL8154658753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405375
- 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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