Charity Farmhouse

CHARITY FARMHOUSE, THWAITE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1287890
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Charity Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CHARITY FARMHOUSE, THWAITE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1287890
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Charity Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CHARITY FARMHOUSE, THWAITE ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHARITY FARMHOUSE, THWAITE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Thorndon
National Grid Reference:
TM 13480 69872

Details

THORNDON THWAITE ROAD TM 16 NW 3/105 - Charity Farmhouse

GV II Farmhouse. C15. Timber framed, mostly plastered, with a thatched roof. 1½ storeys. 3-cell form with former open hall. Various casement windows. One old plank door and to extreme right a mid C20 door. One small dormer. Internal stack with small common brick shaft. Interior partly unmodernised, with much of the structure concealed. Upper end of hall has 2-centre arched doorway into parlour. Service partition at ground floor removed. Solid-tread stair at service end. Blocked diamond-mullioned window in front wall of service chamber. Intact open truss over hall has arch-braced cambered tie beam and tall octagonal crown-post with moulded cap and base and 4-way bracing. Sooted medieval rafters mostly intact.

Listing NGR: TM1348069872

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281386
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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