Poplar Farmhouse
POPLAR FARMHOUSE, 2, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351351
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE, 2, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351351
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Poplar Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE, 2, THE 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:
- POPLAR FARMHOUSE, 2, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beck Row, Holywell Row and Kenny Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70473 77355
Details
TL 77 NW MILDENHALL THE STREET, HOLY WELL ROW
6/84 No. 2 Poplar Farmhouse -
- II
House, formerly farmhouse. Early C16, with alterations of C17 and c.1980. Small open-hall house with cross-wing to right and altered service cell to left. The hall range is of 1 storey with attics, and the cross-wing of 2 storeys. Timber-framed and rendered, with alterations of clunch and painted brick. C20 applied half-timbering to cross-wing. Hipped double Roman pantiled roof, formerly thatched, with rendered C17 chimney having sunk date panel, the upper part of shaft in gault brick. C19 and C20 casements and panelled entrance door. The small central open hall has its original smoke-blackened clasped-purlin roof. The 2-bay cross-wing was originally of 2 cells at ground floor and one above, which has a central arch-braced tie-beam. A narrow cell to left has heavy lodged floor joists and evidence for close-studding; there was originally a small loft above within a hipped roof. This end was extended C17 to provide a heated parlour, and a massive chimney and 1st floor were inserted into the hall. Included despite C20 alterations because a rare example of a late-mediaeval Breckland farmhouse; a further rare feature is the original combination of an open hearth with a hall having a side-purlin roof, two features not normally considered contemporary in Suffolk.
Listing NGR: TL7047377355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275895
- 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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