Metfieldlane Farmhouse
METFIELDLANE FARMHOUSE, METFIELD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352182
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Metfieldlane Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- METFIELDLANE FARMHOUSE, METFIELD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352182
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Metfieldlane Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- METFIELDLANE FARMHOUSE, METFIELD 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:
- METFIELDLANE FARMHOUSE, METFIELD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fressingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 28351 78746
Details
FRESSINGFIELD METFIELD LANE TM 27 NE 6/47 Metfieldlane Farmhouse - GV II
Farmhouse. In 2 builds: late C15/early C16 to south, early C17 to north. Timber framed, mainly encased in red brick. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. 2-cell form. Scattered fenestration: to the west side 4 windows each have a single C17 ovolo-moulded mullion exposed. C19 half-glazed door. Internal stack. The earlier part comprises the end bay of a late medieval range, the former gable end now set against the stack of the present house. There are corner braces passing through the floor level, 2 diamond-mullioned windows (one of them in the former gable), a slightly cambered end tie beam and the remains of a queen-post roof with the later roof above. The north cell has the first floor framing exposed. Newel stairs.
Listing NGR: TM2835178746
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279996
- 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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