Bleach Farmhouse
BLEACH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283533
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bleach Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BLEACH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283533
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bleach Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLEACH FARMHOUSE
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:
- BLEACH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wissett
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 37368 79544
Details
TM 37 NE WISSETT
5/49 Bleach Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse, on a large rectangular moated site. Early and late C16. 2½-storey main range; 2-storey rear wing: L-shaped. Timber-framed; fronted in late C19 red brick; rendered sides and rear wing. Plaintiles to main roof; pantiles to rear. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rectangular red brick shaft. Various C20 casement windows, mainly 2-light. Half-glazed door. The rear wing, largely disused, is the oldest part of the building: 4 bays; framing exposed inside; trusses with arched braces to the tie-beams; arched braces halved against studs at the corners. 2 blocked 4-light windows on the upper floor with diamond mullions in situ. Roof with one row of unstepped butt purlins and one row of clasped, windbraces, and principal rafters unrelated to the trusses below. The main range is in 5 bays, with a basic internal chimney and cross-entry form, now altered to a lobby-entrance. The cross entry was divided from the hall by an early C17 panelled screen, still surviving. Plain exposed ceilings: beams and joists with chamfer and curved stops; the upper ceilings are original. There are 2 rooms above the 2-bay hall, with an original dividing partition. Roof in 6 bays: one row of unstepped butt purlins; cambered collars.
Listing NGR: TM3736879544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282123
- 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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