Tuffields Farmhouse
TUFFIELDS FARMHOUSE, TUFFIELDS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230925
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Tuffields Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TUFFIELDS FARMHOUSE, TUFFIELDS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230925
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tuffields Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUFFIELDS FARMHOUSE, TUFFIELDS 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:
- TUFFIELDS FARMHOUSE, TUFFIELDS 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 83293 56765
Details
TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD TUFFIELDS ROAD
4/150 Tuffields Farmhouse (Formerly listed under Melon 14.7.55 Green)
II
House, formerly farmhouse; c.1500 with alterations of several periods. 2 storeys; hall range and 2 cross-wings. Timber-framed and rendered. Slated roofs. 2 fine early C17 axial chimneys of red brick, one with a group of 4 octagonal flues on a square plinth; star-tops of carved brick (restored in cement), sunk rendered panels on each face of shaft and prominent moulded base. A second 2-flue chimney has the plinth only remaining, the flues rebuilt C19. Mainly sliding sash windows, c.1842 (date in roof strucure); glazed pair of panelled entrance doors. The right-hand parlour wing, c.1500, has substantial close-studded framing; in the parlour chamber an arch-headed doorway and traces of a painted frieze and other abstract decoration of late C16 or early C17. The hall range built early or mid C16, probably replacing an earlier structure. The service wing c.1500; extended forwards to form a symmetrical H-plan c.1600. Chimneys inserted c.1600; one with back-to-back fireplaces to the kitchen and new parlour; the second with fireplaces to the hall, old parlour and the chambers above; the hall range reroofed with principal rafters, purlins, and collars supporting an attic floor. A pair of crude oak figures and panelling, c.1600, found in a partition, now fixed over the new parlour fireplace. A number of c.1600 ovolo-mullioned windows. All roofs rebuilt c.1842 (date carved on collar in cross-wing).
Listing NGR: TL8329356765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405399
- 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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