Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FLIXTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283972
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FLIXTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283972
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FLIXTON 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:
- CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FLIXTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Cross, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 30146 84943
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM ST. CROSS FLIXTON ROAD TM 38 SW
4/51 Chestnut Tree Farmhouse (formerly listed as Chestnut 1.9.53 Farmhouse) - II
Farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics: L-shaped form. Timber-framed and rendered, south gable in painted brick: re-roofed with concrete plaintiles in 1984. The north-south range has an internal chimney stack: 2 attached square shafts with corbelled heads set diagonally on a square base; there are 8 small projections from the base of, and between, the shafts, possibly of formalised horses' heads. Various old casement windows, 3-light and 4-light, those on the ground floor with transomes and square leading to the top panes; pintle hinges. The east-west range has an internal chimney-stack with a plain square shaft; C20 replacement windows; a slatted, unglazed window to the cheese room in the east gable. Various plank doors. The 2 ranges appear to be contemporary or near-contemporary, that aligned north-south in 6 bays, including a chimney-bay, containing the main living area. On the ground floor, only the main beams and a surrounding cornice are exposed, both with very large ovolo mouldings. Long shallow jowls to the main posts; arched braces to the tie-beams still in situ; original upper ceilings with chamfer and stepped stops to the timbers; face-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. Roof in 9 bays: 2 rows of unstepped butt purlins, heavy cambered collars to trusses and intermediate collars between, windbraces, sloping inwards only, have been removed. The east-west range has good studding and reversed bracing exposed on the upper floor; roof mainly concealed above upper ceilings, but with 2 rows of butt purlins, and apparently similar to the other range. A newel stair by the stack in each range.
Listing NGR: TM3014684943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282311
- 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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