Walnut Tree Farmhouse
WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251354
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251354
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN 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:
- WALNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1567351765
Details
TM 15 SE
4/122
HENLEY
MAIN ROAD
Walnut Tree Farmhouse
II*
Farmhouse, built in 4 phases from mid C15 to mid C16. A large half-H plan
house; the service range also projects at the rear. 2 storeys. Timber-framed
and plastered. Plaintiled roofs with C19 serpentine bargeboards. Axial
chimneys of red brick; the central stack in the hall range has a C16 saw-tooth
pattern shaft. Mainly C19 small-pane sash windows. 1-storey C20 entrance
porch with plaintiled roof; panelled inner door. The construction phases are
as follows:-
1. Part of a 2-bay C15 open hall now behind the service range. Tension-braced
close-studwork and heavily smoke-blackened crown-pose roof. It originally had
a further cell at the rear; the hall may have been kept on as a kitchen or
bakehouse for the substantial house built in C16.
2. A 2-cell, 4 bay service range attached to the hall c.1500; plain but heavy
framing, arch-braced close-studwork and unmoulded crownpost roof. Some
blocked diamond-mullioned windows. This range was detached from the early C16
house and thus has windows which are now internal.
3. A solar cross-wing, coeval with, but detached from phase 2. A high
quality structure. The 3-bay solar has very close studwork; the open trusses
survive, but without the original crown posts. A blocked window has heavily
moulded mullions, each light having a little arched head with sunk spandrels.
This solar wing was attached to a hall range which was demolished to make room
for phase 4.
4. This range was re-built c.1550-1570 and contains a hall and parlour of
high quality, with back-to-back fireplaces. The parlour has roll-moulded
beams and joists and blocked moulded mullioned windows. Wind-braced clasped-
purlin roof.
Attached to the rear wall of the house is a limestone headstone taken from a
nearby meadow; it marked the grave of a horse which according to the epitaph
served its master in several battles in Europe during the Napoleonic wars and
evidently retired to this farm until its death. Included as Grade II* because
a good example of the evolution of the house of a prosperous farmer from the
C15 to C16.
Listing NGR: TM1567351765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433484
- 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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