Potash Farm House
POTASH FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284856
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Potash Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- POTASH FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284856
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Potash Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POTASH FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
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:
- POTASH FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mellis
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0874373554
Details
MELLIS THE COMMON (SOUTH EAST
TM 07 SE SIDE)
3/30 Potash Farm House
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-- II
Farmhouse. C17 with C16 origins probable, altered C19. Timber frame,
plastered. Thatched roof. 3 cells, once longer with left bay and stack
probably originally part of an earlier range. 2 storeys. Entrance in left
bay of main block with a part fielded 6 panelled door, recessed with
architrave, hood mould. 3-light glazing bar casements, on first floor a long
2 and 3-light window in entrance bay, ground floor hoodboards, first floor
hood moulds. Left bay has slightly lower eaves, an axial ridge stack now
extruded. Right end external stack with offsets, exposed plates. To rear of
left bay a catslide roof over a brick and clay lump lean-to outshut, central
on main range a boarded door. Interior: frame is largely concealed, runout
chamfered axial and cross axial binding beams, on first floor where main range
meets earlier bay to left are opposed base cruck blades to a raised tie beam.
Listing NGR: TM0874373554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280318
- 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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