Abbey Farmhouse
ABBEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352364
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352364
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE
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:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolpit
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 97571 61324
Details
WOOLPIT THE GREEN TL 96 SE 1/130 Abbey Farmhouse - - II Former farmhouse. Early C16 with alterations of early C17 and c.1970. One storey and attics. A 2-cell open hall house with major additions. Timber- framed and plastered. Thatched roof with an axial C17 chimney of pink/buff brick, and another external gable chimney also C17. An eyebrow casement dormer. Mid C20 small-pane casements. Boarded C20 entrance door. A 2-bay open hall has a storeyed cell at the east end. Arch windbraced widely-spaced studding. Queenpost roof (the open truss has been removed). Unchamfered 1st floor joists. A C17 inserted 1st floor in the hall has on-edge joists. A wide lintelled open fireplace of this date in the 2nd cell. Two single-cell extensions added either side in C17: one has a lintelled parlour fireplace and the other a diamond mullioned window.
Listing NGR: TL9757161324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280883
- 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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