Sycamore House
SYCAMORE HOUSE, SOMERSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250920
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Sycamore House
- Statutory Address:
- SYCAMORE HOUSE, SOMERSHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00489/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250920
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Sycamore House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYCAMORE HOUSE, SOMERSHAM 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:
- SYCAMORE HOUSE, SOMERSHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bramford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 11047 47912
Details
BRAMFORD SOMERSHAM ROAD TM 14 NW 7/84 Sycamore House 9.12.55 - II Farmhouse. C15 with alterations of C16 and later. A substantial H-plan open hall house. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered; areas of C18 or early C19 herringbone pargetting. Plaintiled roofs with several red brick chimneys of C16 and later; a late Cl6 external stack against the parlour cross-wing to left has a pair of diagonally-set square shafts. Various windows mostly of early C19: a small-paned sash in the parlour, several casements with mullions and transomes (one being a splayed bay with hinged boarded shutters). Two entrance doorways, the main one at left having an early C19 cornice on pilasters, a 2-panelled door and C20 open lean-to porch. The secondary entrance has an early C19 6-panelled door. The right hand cross-wing may be earliest; it is jettied at 1st floor and has widely-spaced tension-braced studwork of early C15 type. The hall range has massive C15 close-scudding. Alterations of c.1600 included inserting an upper floor into the hall, raising che walls and rebuilding all roofs with many of the original smoke-blackened hall rafters. The staircase has early C17 balustrading with a turned newel and balusters. A dairy-bakehouse range was added to right in mid/late C16 with massive plain upper floor and arch-braced close-studwork. An original mullioned window has its sliding shutter in place. Clasped-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TM1104747912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433439
- 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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