Court Farmhouse
COURT FARMHOUSE, CASTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251595
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COURT FARMHOUSE, CASTLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251595
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT FARMHOUSE, CASTLE 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:
- COURT FARMHOUSE, CASTLE 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:
- TM 05971 48694
Details
OFFTON CASTLE ROAD TM 04 NE 6/145 Court Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse, C15 with alterations of c.1600 and later. A 3-cell open-hall house; the service cell to right is of 2 storey cross-wing form. The hall range is of 1 storey with attics. Timber-framed and plastered; the hall range is partly encased in C19 painted brick. Plaintiled roof with gabled casement dormer. Axial C16 chimney of red brick. A rear chimney in the cross-wing is incorporated in a red brick gable of c.1700. Mainly C19 casements, some with transomes; in the wing are early C19 small-pane sashes, some with sidelights. At the cross-entry position is a fine, but altered 2-storey entrance porch of c.1600; the jetty has a moulded fascia board, this and the gable tie-beam and the bargeboards are all billet-carved, and at the eaves are pierced drop finials. Another larger finial formerly hung from the apex. The head survives from an oriel over the entrance. Boarded C19 entrance door. The 2- bay hall has an open truss with arch-braced cambered tie-beam, damaged by alterations. Complete coupled-rafter roof, smoke-encrusted. In C16 a large fireplace was built against the cross-passage. C1600, an upper floor with good chamfered joists was inserted in the hall. In C17 the crosswing walls were raised and the upper floor and roof rebuilt; many reused rafters are mediaeval and blackened. Known as Lost Farmhouse until early C20.
Listing NGR: TM0597148694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434304
- 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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