Church Farmhouse

CHURCH FARMHOUSE, FORWARD GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1284442
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:
Church Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, FORWARD GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1284442
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:
Church Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, FORWARD GREEN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, FORWARD GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Earl Stonham
National Grid Reference:
TM 10723 58836

Details

EARL STONHAM FORWARD GREEN TM 15 NW 5/100 Church Farmhouse 9-12-55 - II

Former farmhouse. Early C17 and early C18, altered mid C20. 3-cell plan. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with axial C17 chimney of red brick with sawtooth shaft; pierced crested ridge tiles, and carved C19 bargeboards to the parlour-block gable to right. Small-pane sashes and casements, mainly renewed in C20. Glazed entrance door in a long pantiled lean-to extension. The prominent parlour block has typical early C17 framing with on-edge floor joists and close-studding (many studs are broad and reused), and 3 open fireplaces; that serving the hall reuses for a lintel a roll-moulded C16 beam carved with a trailing vine motif, punctuated with bunches of grapes. The lower hall range was totally rebuilt in C18, and has fully-exposed primary-braced studding.

Listing NGR: TM1072358836

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Legacy System number:
279349
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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