Starhouse Farmhouse
STARHOUSE FARMHOUSE, CLAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352111
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Starhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- STARHOUSE FARMHOUSE, CLAY STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352111
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Starhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STARHOUSE FARMHOUSE, CLAY 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:
- STARHOUSE FARMHOUSE, CLAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornham Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08480 70513
Details
TM 07 SE
2/70
THORNHAM MAGNA
CLAY STREET (NORTH SIDE)
Starhouse Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. c.1600, altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply
pitched plaintiled roofs. 2 cell lobby entry block, 2 storeys and attic with
3 bay, 1 storey and attic service wing to rear to form a T on plan. Central
entrance in a projecting full height gabled porch, half glazed door. First
floor 2-light glazing bar casement. Flanking bays have ground floor 3-light
and first floor 2-light glazing bar casements with brick casing to left on
ground floor, sprocket eaves. Central axial ridge stack, rebuilt, broader at
base. Left gable end 2-light casements, right gable end 3-light casements
with an early attic window with a lattice leaded light. Service wing right
return has a catslide roof over a lean-to outshut towards front with an
entrance, mixed C20 casements, a cross axial stack to left side of ridge
towards rear between kitchen and dairy. Rear gable end exposed plates and
purlins, pantiled lean-to outshut. Interior: hall to front right has close
studding, ogee stop chamfered mid-rails and axial binding beam, parlour
largely rebuilt, to service wing a small vaulted passage with C19 architraved
key blocked doors, altered close studding in kitchen. First floor: close
studding, 3-light ovolo mullioned window openings, jowled posts faced away
from stack in centre bay, stop chamfered cross axial binding beams. Attic has
cruck-like spandrel pieces pegged onto principal rafters and posts to replace
tie beams, lower butt purlins, collars to upper clasped purlins. Service wing
has a single clasped purlin roof with halved principals, cambered collars,
arched windbraces.
Listing NGR: TM0848070513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279526
- 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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