Chalk Farmhouse
CHALK FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351301
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chalk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHALK FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351301
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chalk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHALK FARMHOUSE, 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:
- CHALK FARMHOUSE, 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:
- Lakenheath
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 71364 82988
Details
TL 7182 LAKENHEATH HIGH STREET
11/26 Chalk Farmhouse -
- II
House and surgery. c.1700 with C15 core and alterations of C19 and C20. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Flint and brick rubble with quoins of gault brick. Hipped plaintiled roof with rear chimney of red brick. Windows with segmental arches of gault brick, and small-pane sashes mainly of 3 lights. Partly glazed panelled C19 entrance'door with architrave and gabled canopy on carved brackets. To the rear of the front range is a small part of a substantial C15 house of clunch with limestone dressings, with on each floor an open fireplace flanked by a garderobe to right, and a newel staircase to left. About 8 doorways survive, some still having 4-centred arched heads, also a stone mullioned window. The front range may have a C15 core, but all visible features, including a good oak-framed roof with butt-purlins and massive principals, are of late C17. The rear wing was almost rebuilt C18, and again mid C20.
Listing NGR: TL7136482988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275835
- 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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