Watering Farmhouse
WATERING FARMHOUSE, IPSWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231448
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Watering Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WATERING FARMHOUSE, IPSWICH ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00453/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231448
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Watering Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERING FARMHOUSE, IPSWICH 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:
- WATERING FARMHOUSE, IPSWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Needham Market
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09530 54260
Details
BARKING IPSWICH ROAD, NEEDHAM TM 05 SE MARKET 2/39 Watering Farmhouse -
- II
Former farmhouse. Built in 2 stages: a small C16 house of 1 storey with attics, and a 2-cell parlour block of 2 storeys with attics added in early or mid C17 to right. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with axial chimney of red brick. A gabled C20 casement dormer. Mainly mid C20 small- pane casements; 3 C17 mullioned windows have been unblocked and glazed in the parlour. C20 gabled entrance porch with boarded door. The parlour block has good close-studding and the main beams are ovolo-moulded and channelled. Joists fully-exposed, some flat and some on-edge. The C16 range was probably a 3-cell house, becoming a service wing to left of the lobby - entrance from C17 onwards. The building was restored from dereliction c.1970 and has lost much original work particularly in the earlier wing. N.M.R. English Vernacular Houses Mercer, 1975.
Listing NGR: TM0953054260
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406595
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975)
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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