Church Farmhouse

CHURCH FARMHOUSE, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262804
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Church Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, MAIN ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262804
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Church Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH 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:
TM 15743 51333

Details

HENLEY MAIN ROAD TM 15 SE 4/120 Church Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse, C15 with alterations of c.1600 and later. A 3-cell open-hall house. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with axial chimney of red brick. Mainly mid-C20 casements with leaded lights. C20 gabled thatched entrance porch with boarded door. In the hall is a complete central open truss, with cambered tie beam. The arch-braces spring from wall shafts. A large cross-quadrate crown-post has 4-way arch-braces. Heavy smoke-blackening. Good close-studwork throughout. A pair of cross-passage doorways have 4-centred arched heads. The parlour chamber has a large complete diamond-mullioned window, but the formerly hipped roof at this end was rebuilt in C17. An upper floor with chamfered joists was inserted into the hall c1600 and a fireplace with wide cambered lintel built against the parlour partition. A second flue was added for the parlour in C18. A rear wing was added to the service end in C18, and another behind the parlour end in mid C20.

Listing NGR: TM1574351333

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
433482
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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