Orchard Farmhouse
ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, CLARKES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284112
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, CLARKES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284112
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, CLARKES LANE
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:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE, CLARKES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Andrew, Ilketshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 38189 87854
Details
ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW CLARKE'S LANE TM 38 NE 2/6 Orchard Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse, marked on the O.S. map as 'Birchams Farm'. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics; 3-cell lobby entrance form. Timber-framed, plastered, clay pantiles. An internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt shaft of old red brick. At the base of the shaft is a small empty recessed panel with moulded surround. 3 old cross windows to the ground floor, and 2, with one plain 2- light casement window, to the upper floor; 2 gabled dormers with plain 2-light casement windows. Above the entrance is an original 3-light diamond-mullioned window, and on the upper floor of the rear are 2 more mullioned windows, one 3-light with ovolo moulding, the other 4-light with the outer moulding hacked off. An early C19 gabled porch, rendered and pantiled, with an arched opening. The entrance doorway inside has a pointed Gothic arch, and a door with 2 matching half-glazed leaves with Gothic tracery. Main beans visible inside; newel stair by the stack. At the north end, a C19 single-storey lean-to in red brick with pantiled roof projects forward beyond the line of the main front. It is unoccupied and becoming derelict.
Listing NGR: TM3818987854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282222
- 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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