Rectory Farm House

RECTORY FARM HOUSE, GREAT GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352256
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farm House
Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARM HOUSE, GREAT GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352256
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farm House
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY FARM HOUSE, GREAT GREEN

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARM HOUSE, GREAT GREEN

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Thrandeston
National Grid Reference:
TM 12201 76791

Details

THRANDESTON GREAT GREEN (SOUTH SIDE) TM 17 NW

2/113 Rectory Farm House -

-- II

Farmhouse. Early to mid C16, stack inserted in C17, altered and extended in C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered; with some brick casing and extension. Steeply pitched machine tiled roof. Originally 5 bays with a central smoke bay between large hall and parlour. Service range, probably detached, no longer survives. 1 bay extension at lower end of hall. 2 storeys, originally continuously jettied along front. Ground floor underbuilt in brick with two 2-light windows to left or parlour bays with cambered key blocked heads, a similar window to added right bay. C20 lean-entrance porch to centre, first floor C20 2-light casements. Boxed eaves. Rebuilt axial ridge stack to original centre. Left or parlour gable end has ground floor brick cladding and may have been jettied, C17 acanthus consoles to wall plates. Right gable end is C19 brick with an internal end stack. To rear exposed brick at base of main stack, C20 casements and a C20 lean-to outshut. Interior: hall is richly moulded, crossed binding beams and storey posts are continuously and completely roll, wave and hollow moulded; upper end, joists and mid rails all similarly treated. Parlour has slightly simpler mouldings to binding beams and joists. Blocked cross passage doors at lower end of hall. Close studding throughout. First floor: large 4 and 5-light complex ovolo mullioned window openings, moulded binding beams, reverse curved bracing in end wall. Queen post roof with cranked longitudinal braces from posts to arcade plates/purlins. Partly moated site.

Listing NGR: TM1220176791

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
280402
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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