White House Farmhouse
WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285326
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285326
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE 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:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Laxfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 27409 73150
Details
LAXFIELD TM 27 SE
4/27 White House Farmhouse -
-- II*
Farmhouse. Early C15 with C16 addition to right of stack. Timber framed and plastered except for the rear wall which is weatherboarded. The front has C20 widely-spaced applied studding. Pantiled roof. 1½ storeys. 4 windows, C19 and C20 casements. Plank door. 2 small gabled dormers. Internal stack. Against the left gable end a lean-to addition and a small stack. A former open hall house, one end of which (probably the solar end) was rebuilt in C16 when the stack was inserted. 2-bay open hall with original heavily sooted queen-post roof with a ridge piece; the queen-posts are of cross-quadrate section. There are 2 additional tie beams in what is probably the lower bay of the hall, but no evidence for them in the upper bay. C16 inserted ceiling has bridging beam with solid arched braces to the wall posts and chamfered joists with run-out stops. Hall fireplace has a good moulded and embattled lintol. C16 addition has chamfered-joist ground floor ceiling. C16 newel stairs.
Listing NGR: TM2740973150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280147
- 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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