Suttons Farmhouse
SUTTONS FARMHOUSE, BURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279345
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Suttons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SUTTONS FARMHOUSE, BURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279345
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Suttons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUTTONS FARMHOUSE, BURY 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:
- SUTTONS FARMHOUSE, BURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brockley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 83050 56140
Details
TL 85 NW BROCKLEY BURY ROAD
4/35 Suttons Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, late C16. 2 storeys, 3-cell plan with additional cell behind parlour. Timber-framed and rendered. Plain-tiled roof with axial and gable chimneys of red brick. Late C18 3-light casements. C20 boarded entrance door. An original staircase of triangular blocks pegged to bearers, within what would otherwise be a cross-passage. Exposed timber-framing with ovolo-moulded 1st floor beams. An original smoke-curing chamber at attic level, associated with the axial chimney; so far a unique example in Suffolk. For details, see "A smoke-curing chamber at Brockley" by John McCann, Proceedings of Suff. Inst. Arch., 1982. In the will of John Sutton, 1696, the farm was vested in trustees, and income to be used for maintaining 6 poor religious men and 6 poor boys in Bury St. Edmunds.
Listing NGR: TL8305056140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403638
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, (1982)
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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