Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 23, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285562
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 23, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00901/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285562
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 23, HIGH 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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 23, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clare
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7691945489
Details
1.
2006
TL 74 NE
18/69
19.12.61
CLARE
CLARE
High Street
(West Side)
No 23 (Church Farmhouse)
II*
GV
2.
A late C15 or early C16 timber-framed and plastered house. The front is plastered
in panels. 2 storeys with a jettied upper storey on the front on brackets, with
the remains of shafts. A wing extends at the rear with a jettied upper storey
with a bracket and the remains of a shaft. On the front the 1st storey has oriel
bays with mullioned and transomed casements (possibly C18), on brackets. The
ground storey has 2 C20 bays under the jetty. Roof slate on the front and tiled
at the rear. The interior has some moulded beams, exposed studding and the remains
of C16 panelling.
No 15 (The Vicarage), Wall to the Vicarage, No 16 (Galloway House), Nos 17 to 22
(consec), No 23 (Church Farmhouse) with No 26 and The Parish Church of SS Peter
and Paul form a group.
Listing NGR: TL7691945489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282989
- 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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