Whitegate Farmhouse
WHITEGATE FARMHOUSE, NORWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352071
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whitegate Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEGATE FARMHOUSE, NORWICH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352071
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whitegate Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEGATE FARMHOUSE, NORWICH 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:
- WHITEGATE FARMHOUSE, NORWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Creeting St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 12134 57238
Details
CREETING ST. MARY NORWICH ROAD TM 15 NW 5/66 Whitegate Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Built in two stages, C16 and early C17. Major mid C19 alterations. 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan. 2 storeys. Timber-framed, the front elevation encased in mid C19 red brick (other walls pebble-dashed). Slated C19 roof with carved bargeboards; C17 axial chimney, plastered and recapped in red brick (a C19 external red brick chimney to left). C19 small- pane sashes, and a pair of French windows to the parlour. C19 4-panelled entrance door at the cross-passage position. Timber-framing well exposed internally; the C16 hall and service cells with arch wind-braced studding, and the C17 parlour block with slenderer but closely-spaced studding. Other C17 work includes: main beams ovolo-moulded with leaf stops, a chimney between hall and parlour with an original arched and ovolo-moulded chamber fireplace, several good plank doors, and inserted attics throughout. A C18 parlour corner cupboard with fretted shelves. A rear wing comprising dairy and backhouse with cheeseroom and granary above was added in C19.
Listing NGR: TM1213457238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279315
- 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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