Elm Farmhouse

ELM FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352326
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Elm Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ELM FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352326
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Elm Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ELM FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ELM FARMHOUSE, STOWMARKET ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Stowupland
National Grid Reference:
TM 06524 59474

Details

STOWUPLAND STOWMARKET ROAD TM 05 NE

7/194 Elm Farmhouse -

-- II

Former farmhouse; mid C16, early C17 and early C19. Built in 2 sections. Front section of early C19: plastered brick (the lower section and the side walls are painted instead of plastered). Slated roof with gable chimneys of gault brick. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Small-pane sashes with flush frames, those at ground storey with boarded shutters. Entrance door with 2 tall beaded panels; square fanlight and flat canopy on brackets. The C19 building forms a double-pile plan with the earlier house behind; built in 2 stages, mid C16 and early C17. 3-cell plan, the service cell to left is an addition of C17. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof, hipped at right hand end. An axial C16/C17 chimney of red brick. Various C19 and C20 casements. The C16 section has good framing:- close-studding, chamfered floor joists, with pyramid chamfer stops to the binding beam in the hall. Clasped purlin roof. A large cambered lintel to the parlour fireplace to right. The C17 framing is complete but plain, and of slightly lesser quality.

Listing NGR: TM0652459474

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
280677
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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