Abbey Farmhouse
ABBEY FARMHOUSE, HOXNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316547
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, HOXNE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316547
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, HOXNE 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.
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:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, HOXNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eye
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 15300 74214
Details
EYE
TM1573 HOXNE ROAD 585-1/6/98 (North side (off)) 15/06/51 Abbey Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: HOXNE ROAD Abbey Farmhouse. Remains of Chapel to North West)
II
House. Mid C16, incorporating in east wall part of west cloister range of Priory of St Peter, suppressed 1537. Front range refronted and altered c.1720. Brick, timber frame and re-used ashlar. Roofs of plaintiles (front range) and pantiles. Red brick laid in Flemish bond. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 6-window range. Plinth course. Two C19 doorways symmetrically placed in second and fifth bays, that to west with gabled late C19 porch, that to east with C20 pentice roof on posts. Over doors the windows on each floor are single-light C19 casements. Remainder of fenestration of 3-light C19 metal casements. All windows under segmental heads. Platbands at first and second floors. Hipped roof with two panelled ridge stacks. West return of banded flint and brick with ashlar quoins to north-west corner. One 3-light ground-floor C19 casement and one similar 2-light casement each floor above. East return with re-used ashlar blocks at intervals. Platbands between floors, each floor lit by one 3-light C19 casement. Rear with two hipped and one gabled wings, the former of one storey and dormer attic, the latter of one storey only. East wing with re-used ashlar, two ground-floor 3-light C20 casements, two C20 flat-topped dormers. INTERIOR: front range with chamfered bridging beams to both floors, rebuilt fireplace to east ground-floor room. At first floor is a chamfered 4-centred doorway communicating with rear wing and belonging to a range replaced by the early C18 front block. Rear east wing with two polygonal C15 principal posts of very heavy scantling, the southern one developing bowtell and casement mouldings at upper floor; both posts re-used from priory. Frame of rear wing of moderate scantling, with jowled principal posts and dragon struts to corners. Several C16 plank doors on strap hinges. Roof of front range of rafters and two tiers of butt purlins. (Pevsner N & Radcliffe E: Buildings of England: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth: 1974-: 208).
Listing NGR: TM1530074214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468350
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 208
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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