Farmbuilding South of Grimston Hall
FARMBUILDING SOUTH OF GRIMSTON HALL, GRIMSTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244817
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Farmbuilding South of Grimston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FARMBUILDING SOUTH OF GRIMSTON HALL, GRIMSTON LANE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/00550/12
- Rights:
- © R H MacMillan. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244817
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Farmbuilding South of Grimston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMBUILDING SOUTH OF GRIMSTON HALL, GRIMSTON LANE
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:
- FARMBUILDING SOUTH OF GRIMSTON HALL, GRIMSTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Trimley St. Martin
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2688036583
Details
TM 23 NE
1125/2/10004
TRIMLEY ST MARTIN
GRIMSTON LANE
Farmbuilding South of Grimston Hall
GV II
Farm building, probably originally a stable. Early C16 with C18 alterations and C18/C19 additions. Original brick ground storey and timber-framed upper storey with brick nogging, visible on north side within later lean-to additions. West gable end rendered. Remaining 2 sides rebuilt in red brick in C18. Additions in red brick and tarred weatherboards. Clay pantiled roofs. 2 storeys. South wall has various small windows and one diamond ventilation opening. On the west gable end is a wide ground floor doorway and an C18 enclosed stair to the upper floor. Former outside wall within north lean-to has an original blocked S-light window with heavy chamfered mullions, and on the upper floor good heavy close studding with further blocked window openings. INTERIOR. The timber frame is in 4 bays, a 5th bay to the east now missing. There is no evidence of internal partitions on either floor, nor of the original stair. Plain but substantial upper floor structure, the main beams with very shallow wide chamfers. South wallplate has evidence for 2 diamond-mullioned windows. Long arched braces to tie beams. Intact crown-post roof, the plain square crown posts with 2-way plank bracing to the collar purlin and a pair of down braces to the tie beam. HISTORY .This is the only surviving building of the farmstead associated the Elizabethan Grimston Hall, the home of Thomas Cavendish, which was replaced by the present farmhouse around 1700.
Listing NGR: TM2688036583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472842
- 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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