Church Farm Cottage Church Farm House
CHURCH FARM COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241241
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farm Cottage Church Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARM COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241241
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farm Cottage Church Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARM COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, THE STREET
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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:
- CHURCH FARM COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rickinghall Superior
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03976 75159
Details
RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR THE STREET (NORTH WEST TM 07 NW SIDE) 1/166 Church Farm House and 29.7.55 Church Farm Cottage (formerly listed as Church Farm House) GV II House, now 2 dwellings. c.1500, stacks inserted, reroofed, altered and extended early C17, extended C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered with flint, clay lump and red brick additions. Steeply pitched machine pantiled roofs. 5 bays, fully storeyed 3 cell plan with narrow smoke bay and cross passage bay, continuously jettied to front and at upper end, stack inserted in smoke bay. 2 storeys. Ground floor: entrance into original cross passage with a C20 architraved door, hall and parlour to left have C20 15 pane bow windows, service bay to right has a 3-light part opening casement. Jetty to first floor which projects slightly less far in largely rebuilt cross passage and service bays, jetty steps down to a lower level with 2 curved brackets in service bay, 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, roof is lower over cross passage and service bays. In original smoke bay between hall and parlour is an axial ridge stack with 3 conjoined hexagonal shafts. To left return a brattished corner post with a large bracket to dragon beam, jettied left end with a small bracket to rear, a C20 bow window, 2 and 3-light casements, C17 brackets to exposed plates. Right or service end early C17 external stack with a rebuilt cap in a 1 storey C19 outbuilding, flint with red brick dressings, internal end stack, further right C20 addition with an entrance. To rear a lobby entrance to main range, 2-light casements; behind service bay a 2 bay, 2 storey, C17 dairy with exposed plates and purlins in a brick cased rear gable end; behind cross passage bay a 2 storey C19 clay lump addition with an internal end stack with a hexagonal shaft, an entrance in brick cased gable end with a shallow pitched roof. Interior: close studding of large scantling, hall has an axial binding beam and stop chamfered cross axial beams at ends with jowled storey posts of rebated section at upper end, a 3-light ovolo mullioned window opening with intermediate small diamond mullions; in parlour an C18 chamfered segmental headed fireplace; service end ovolo moulded fireplace bressumer and axial binding beam. First floor: 4-centred arched braces to stop chamfered cambered tie beams with mortices for crown posts and tension braces, arched braces in walling; parlour chamber end wall has a very large sill for an original oriel window, ovolo moulded cross axial binding beams. Good early C17 double butt purlin roof with cambered collars, upper windbraces; service and cross passage bays separately reroofed with cambered collars clasping purlins. C17 dairy wing has close studding with mid-rail, traces of 3 and 4-light diamond mullioned windows. (NMR 1970)
Listing NGR: TM0397675159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440220
- 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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