Nut Tree Farmhouse

NUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1284588
Date first listed:
21-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Nut Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
NUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1284588
Date first listed:
21-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Nut Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
NUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRESSINGFIELD ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Metfield
National Grid Reference:
TM 29378 79852

Details

METFIELD FRESSINGFIELD ROAD TM 27 NE 6/94 Nut Tree Farmhouse - -- II

Farmhouse. Mid-late C16, possibly in 2 phases, with C19 alterations. Timber framed, mainly encased in C19 red brick with pilaster strips at the angles. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys. 3-cell lobby entry form. 3 windows, mainly C18- C19 casements under flat arches. Mid C20 lean-to porch with entrance door in side wall; the doorway within the porch has a C19 6-panel door (the upper section glazed), broad fluted pilasters, frieze and bracketed cornice (partly obscured). Internal stack. Timber frame largely intact, much of it exposed on the upper floor with evidence for diamond-mullioned windows. Ground floor fireplace with eared surround. C19 stair tunnelled through stack. Queen-post roof.

Listing NGR: TM2937879852

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
280043
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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