Sycamore Farmhouse

SYCAMORE FARMHOUSE, BIG GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352449
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Sycamore Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
SYCAMORE FARMHOUSE, BIG GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352449
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Sycamore Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
SYCAMORE FARMHOUSE, BIG GREEN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SYCAMORE FARMHOUSE, BIG GREEN

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Southolt
National Grid Reference:
TM 19963 68781

Details

SOUTHOLT BIG GREEN TM 16 NE 4/61 Sycamore Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. In 2 sections: to south is a C16 range, raised and re-roofed in later C17; to north is an early C17 parlour cross- wing. Timber framed and plastered with roof of concrete plaintiles. 2 storeys with attic to wing. Windows mainly mid C20 casements without glazing bars. North gable of cross-wing has an C18 mullion and transom window with some old diamond-leaded glass. At the junction of the 2 sections is a C19 doorway: 4-panel raised and fielded door, the panels with moulded surrounds; oblong overlight. South range has 2 internal stacks with mid C20 shafts, one at the junction with the wing. To south is a single-storey plastered addition with boarded entrance door. South range in 3 bays, perhaps comprising a hall and service cell, with some heavy close studding and tension braces. The stack at the south end is a later insertion. Parlour end has most of structure concealed; this section may have originally been an in-line addition, later enlarged to form a cross-wing.

Listing NGR: TM1996368781

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
281342
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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