Valley Farmhouse
VALLEY FARMHOUSE, CHRISTMAS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352209
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- VALLEY FARMHOUSE, CHRISTMAS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352209
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALLEY FARMHOUSE, CHRISTMAS 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:
- VALLEY FARMHOUSE, CHRISTMAS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Metfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 30473 80779
Details
METFIELD CHRISTMAS LANE (off) TM 38 SW Valley Farmhouse 3/91 - -- II
Farmhouse. Mid-late C16 with probably C18 additions at service end. Timber framed with modern roughcast render. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. Originally 3-cell form. 4 windows, mid C20 small-paned casements. At the front is a mid C20 gabled entrance addition with glazed door and similar windows to each side. Heavy internal stack and a later stack to the left between the original service end and the C18 addition. Internally much good quality framing and floor structure is exposed; one blocked diamond-mullioned window and evidence for others. Moulded heads to storey posts in parlour. The later addition is framed in re-used timbers, some of them fire-damaged.
Listing NGR: TM3047380779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280040
- 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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