Shrubbery Farmhouse
SHRUBBERY FARMHOUSE, TRAVELLERS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283808
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Shrubbery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHRUBBERY FARMHOUSE, TRAVELLERS ROAD
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- Date:
- 2003-08-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/10891/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283808
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Shrubbery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHRUBBERY FARMHOUSE, TRAVELLERS 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:
- SHRUBBERY FARMHOUSE, TRAVELLERS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cretingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2247458025
Details
CRETINGHAM (Off) TRAVELLERS ROAD
TM 25 NW
(South side)
4/53
16/3/66 Shrubbery Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse, C16. Timber framed with colourwashed render and a plaintile
roof, originally thatched. Entrance front: C20 fenestration. Projecting
C20 single-storey porch at right of centre which has a plank door with
single-light window at right of this. To right of the porch are 4-light
ground and first floor windows and at left are one 4-light and a 3-light
window, each at ground and first floor levels. To the ridge, at right of
centre is a stack of 2 flues with decorative vertical strip and bands. The
right hand side is blank, save that there is a 3-light casement to the
gable. Left hand gable end: 3-light ground floor casement and a 3-light
casement to the gable. Projecting and at left of this is the lean-to
addition with a garage extension. Rear: at right is a projecting C20
gabled wing with blank walling to the gable end at ground floor level and a
3-light first floor casement and a 2-light attic window to the gable. At
right a re-positioned lead rainwater head is dated 1847 and at right again
is the rear of the garage block. The left hand flank of this wing has a
stable door and 4 and 3-light ground floor windows and 3 three-light
casements to the first floor. The rear of the axial range has French
windows at left, a 4-light casement at right and to the first floor are two
4-light lateral casements with a single-light casement between them. To
the attic is a gabled dormer window below the stack.
Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams to the hall with stepped ogee stop and
chamfered joists with run-out end stops. Further beam and mortice holes
indicating the line of a screen, now removed, and doorway, now leading
through to the rear wing, on line with this former screens passage. Near-
set close studding. Rebuilt fireplace with C20 bressumer. A ceiling beam
with mortice holes to another ground floor room indicates the former
division between the service rooms. Inserted baffle-entry plan with
renewed C20 winder staircase. At first floor level there are chamfered
ceiling beams with joists and close studding, jowled wall posts with
tension bracing. Cambered tie beams and collars, heavy common rafters and
2 sets of purlins to the roof which is of 7 bays.
Listing NGR: TM2247458025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286467
- 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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