Watsons Farmhouse
WATSONS FARMHOUSE, CRATFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284754
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Watsons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WATSONS FARMHOUSE, CRATFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284754
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Watsons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATSONS FARMHOUSE, CRATFIELD 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:
- WATSONS FARMHOUSE, CRATFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fressingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 29020 76831
Details
FRESSINGFIELD LITTLE WHITTINGHAM GREEN, TM 27 NE CRATFIELD ROAD 6/39 Watson's Farmhouse - -- II
Former farmhouse. Early C17 with mid C20 addition to left. Timber framed, encased in red brick, partly in rat-trap bond. The right gable end, entirely rebuilt mid C20, is rendered over. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. Originally 2-cell form with lobby entry; 3 cells as extended. Mid C20 casement windows; mid C20 conservatory-type porch. 2 internal stacks, the smaller at the gable end of the original range. Part of the frame is exposed internally, with an original first floor. window with ovolo mullions. Joists in one ground floor room are set on edge; in the other room they are concealed. Original newel stairs. Roof with clasped and diminished butt purlins.
Listing NGR: TM2902076831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279988
- 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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