Field Farmhouse
FIELD FARMHOUSE, THETFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284781
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Field Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FIELD FARMHOUSE, THETFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284781
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Field Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIELD FARMHOUSE, THETFORD 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:
- FIELD FARMHOUSE, THETFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fakenham Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9088976781
Details
TL 97 NW
2/64
14.7.55
FAKENHAM MAGNA
THETFORD ROAD (EAST SIDE)
Field Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Late C16, early C17 and late C18/early C19. Timber-framed,
rendered and lined: plaintiles to front slopes of roof, black-glazed pantiles
to rear. The house is of irregular form, and unusually high. The C16 main
range is aligned north-south. 3 storeys and attics. Large internal chimney-
stack with 8 octagonal shafts, moulded at cap and base. 2 early C18 3-light
casement windows with square leaded panes to first and second storeys, one
similar window and one C20 replacement window on ground storey, and one small-
paned sash window in flush frame at the south end. To the north of the main
range, and apparently contemporary with it, a cross-wing, aligned east-west. 3
storeys. A chimney-stack, with 3 shafts matching those in the main range, is
set just within the frame of the north wall. At the south end of the main
range, a wing aligned east-west, with a new principal front was added in the
early C19. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Fully hipped roof. 3 window range: small-paned
sashes in flush frames. Central half-glazed entrance door, recessed, in a
reeded surround, with panelled sides to jambs. 3-sided cast iron openwork
porch with tented lead-covered roof. Extensions at rear: in the north-east
angle, a small early C17 2-storey wing in red brick with a 3-light ovolo-
moulded mullion-and-transome window in the upper part of the gable. To the
north of this, a 2-storey lean-to, mid C19, in red brick with black-glazed
pantiled roof: casement windows with arched heads to brickwork. To the east, a
single-storey lean-to, mid C19, in flint rubble with pantiled roof.
Listing NGR: TL9088976781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284041
- 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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