PRINCES FARMHOUSE

PRINCES FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1352084
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: PRINCES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: PRINCES FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2002-09-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1352084
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: PRINCES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PRINCES FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PRINCES FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Gislingham
National Grid Reference:: TM 07535 71730

Details

GISLINGHAM HIGH STREET (EAST SIDE) TM 0771 6/31 Princes Farmhouse - - II

House, latterly 2 dwellings. C15, floor inserted and extended mid to late C16; raised, altered and extended mid C18, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched plaintiled and pantiled roofs. Originally a 2 bay open hall with a storeyed lower bay, stack and parlour added at upper end to form a 3 cell cross passage plan, C18 dairy added to rear. Early bays raised to uniform 2 storeys and attic. C16 addition is to right with a C19 lobby entrance, half glazed, half panelled door. Hall bay has 3-light casements, C20 lattice leaded on ground floor, glazing bars on first floor, service end C20 lean-to outshut. Axial ridge stack to right of centre. Gable end 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements. To rear to left of centre a low 2 bay dairy, red brick gable end with internal stack, tumbled-in brickwork, to left a small C19 brick outshut with dentilled eaves, to right a C19 external stack, C20 lean-to outhut. Interior: early bays have full height studding, solar end large arched bracing, original wall plates with long edge halved scarf joints, parts of large 6-light diamond mullioned hall windows, 3-light diamond mullioned service windows, stairs inserted at lower end of hall with stop chamfered axial binding beam and joists. Parlour has close studding with mid- rail, stop chamfered axial binding beam, joists and mid-rail, lobby entrance replacing a 3-light ovolo mullioned window, chamfered jambs to fireplace. Parlour chamber has arched bracing halved outside studs, stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, 4-centred chamfered gauged brick fireplace arch, 4 light window openings. In stack bay 3-light cavetto and 2-light ovolo mullioned windows, intermediate small diamond mullions. Parlour roof lower butt and upper clasped purlins with arched windbraces, C18 roof over early bays has collars, side purlins.

Listing NGR: TM0753571730

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Legacy System number:: 279487
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.