Poplar Farmhouse
POPLAR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284932
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00435/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284932
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE
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:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brome and Oakley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16132 77949
Details
OAKLEY LOWER OAKLEY TM 17 NE 2/138 Poplar Farmhouse 29.7.55 II* Farmhouse. Circa 1400 main range with late C16 cross-wing to left, forming T- shape plan. Timber framed and plastered with a thatched roof. 2 storeys. A 3-cell open hall house of a rare single-ended Wealden form, with the solar end jettied at first floor level to the front. The wallplate to the recessed portion has embattled decoration below which is a hollow chamfer. C19 casement windows. C19 6-panelled raised and fielded door into the hall. 2 ridge stacks with rendered shafts. Original house in 4 bays: it seems likely that the service end had no upper floor, and was built as a single open room with a long hipped roof. Lower bay of open hall has remains of cross-entry doorway; in the service partition is a beam with embattled ornament. Evidence for diamond-mullioned hall windows. The open truss has a cambered tie beam from which the arched braces have been removed. The roof is of raised-aisle form, with jowled queen-posts arch-braced to arcade plates and collar; the braces to the arcade plates are solid. The collar carries a central king- post, which in turn has 2-way bracing to a ridge piece of deep-narrow section. The combination of queen-posts and king post is very rare; there are other examples at The Vicarage, Hoxne (Item 7/81) and Willow Farmhouse, Chippenhall Green, Fressingfield. About one fifth of the original hall rafters remain, together with the plastered lower gable end wall. All original components are heavily sooted. Main stack built in upper end of hall in later C16. Also of this date is the inserted floor, with closely-spaced plain joists, and a partition screening the cross-passage. The cross-wing seems to have been intended as a barn or granary: it now forms living accommodation and the frame has been considerably altered.
Listing NGR: TM1613277949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281079
- 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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