Lambs Farmhouse
LAMBS FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285148
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lambs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LAMBS FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285148
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lambs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAMBS FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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:
- LAMBS FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornham Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10357 71094
Details
THORNHAM MAGNA THE STREET (WEST SIDE) TM 17 SW 3/80 Lamb's Farm House - GV II
House. Early C16, stack inserted early C17, extended early C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Half hipped thatched roof. Small 5 bay, 3 cell cross passage plan, altered to lobby entrance. Always 2 storeys throughout. Lobby entrance to left of centre with a boarded architraved door, C19 gabled trellissed porch with cusped bargeboarding, C19 and C20 3-light glazing bar casements, 2 lights to right or service bay. Traces of panelled pargetting with zigzag patterning survive. Axial ridge stack towards left inserted in parlour. To rear left a clay lump and pantiled lean-to addition. To rear right early C19 red brick and clay lump, pantiled 2 storey service addition with a door towards front, further 1 storey addition. Interior: close studding, hall has stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, chamfered mid- rail, restored 4-centred arched door heads to screens passage, a single 4- centred arched headed chamfered dorway to service end with trimmer joist for original stairs, 3 and 4-light diamond, square and rectangular mullioned window openings, chamfered 4 centred arched gauged brick fireplace to stack replacing original smoke hood, reduced parlour has a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts. First floor: arched braces to open truss, reverse curved arched bracing in closed trusses and in walling, chamfered tie beams, always ceiled. Crown post roof, square posts with cranked arched braces to collar purlin, downward cranked braces to tie beams, a gap for original smoke hood.
Listing NGR: TM1035771094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279536
- 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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