Barleyhouse Farmhouse
BARLEYHOUSE FARMHOUSE, THORPE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352115
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barleyhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARLEYHOUSE FARMHOUSE, THORPE LANE
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- Date:
- 2005-02-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/13550/13
- Rights:
- © Mr Maxwell Newport. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352115
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barleyhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARLEYHOUSE FARMHOUSE, THORPE LANE
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:
- BARLEYHOUSE FARMHOUSE, THORPE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Winston
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 20020 61879
Details
WINSTON THORPE LANE, ASHFIELD TM 26 SW 2/147 Barleyhouse Farmhouse
GV II
Former farmhouse, early C16 with alterations of early C17. 2 storeys. 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan; early C17 parlour block. 2 storeys. Timber- framed and roughcast. Concrete plaintiled roof, the main range hipped with gablets. An axial chimney of red brick, rebuilt c.1980; an early C17 gable chimney in the parlour wing, with an external recess resembling a fireplace but of uncertain purpose. Mid C20 casements; a number of large original diamond-mullioned windows restored and glazed, and others have ovolo-mullions of C17 form. C20 entrance doorway on south side at cross-entry. High quality C16 framing, unmoulded, fully exposed internally. Arch-windbraced close- studding, very closely spaced in the parlour only. Heavy well-chamfered floor joists. Evidence for 4-centred arched doorways now altered, in conventional positions. Crownpost roof: square posts with long 2-way plank braces. Back- to-back brick open fireplaces of C17 form, almost rebuilt c.1980; evidence for original timber-framed chimney in same position. The added parlour block has plain framing and wind-braced clasped purlin roof, and a newel stair in attached tower; an unusual C17 2-storey splayed bay of red brick, once plastered to simulate ashlar work, with altered mullioned windows. Good moulded arched parlour fireplace.
Listing NGR: TM2002061879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279767
- 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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