Poplar Farmhouse
POPLAR FARMHOUSE, BILDESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250949
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE, BILDESTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250949
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE, BILDESTON 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:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE, BILDESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0513749519
Details
TM 04 NE
6/139
9.12.55
OFFTON
BILDESTON ROAD
Poplar Farmhouse (Formerly listed as The Poplars)
GV
II
House, formerly farmhouse. Built in 2 stages - early and late C16 - with C20
alterations. 2 storeys. 3-cell plan. Timber-framed and plastered with mid
C20 herringbone pargetting in panels. Plaintiled roof with axial C17 chimney
of red brick. Mainly C20 windows of 3 lights with metal casements and leaded
lights. Several C16 diamond-mullioned windows have been restored and glazed
in C20. Rear C20 boarded entrance door. An early or mia C16 3-bay hall at
the right-hand end has a binding joist with broach-stopped chamfers and large
unchamfered joists. tension-braced close-studwork. A 2-cell extension
containing a service room and a new hall were added to left in C16, the old
hall becoming a parlour. A chimney was placed in the old cross-passage in
late C16 or C17. The later work has less-massive but more closely-spaced
studwork. Half of the wind-braced butt-purlin roof remains. At the left and
rear are 3 minor C19 and C20 extensions.
Listing NGR: TM0513749519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433510
- 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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