Farthings

13, GRACECHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352459
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Farthings
Statutory Address:
13, GRACECHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352459
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Farthings
Statutory Address 1:
13, GRACECHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
FARTHINGS, 11, GRACECHURCH STREET

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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:
13, GRACECHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:
FARTHINGS, 11, GRACECHURCH STREET

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Debenham
National Grid Reference:
TM 17311 63241

Details

DEBENHAM GRACE CHURCH STREET TM 16 SE 6/73 No.11 (Farthings) & No.13 - GV II

Probably originally one house, now 2. Early C15 and C16, in three phases. Timber framed and plastered. No.13 has exposed studding on upper floor with 2 blocked window openings. Shallow-pitched pantiled roof of C18 or C19. 3 cells. 2 storeys. Continuous jetty to street on original brackets; No.13 has exposed joist-ends and bressummer. Casement windows of late C19 and C20. 3 matching cross windows to ground floor. No.11 has a boarded and battened door in probably C17 frame. No.13 has 4-panel door and plank door to extreme right. Internal stack with rendered shaft. To left, an external gable stack set forward of the roof ridge, and a small one-storey addition beyond. Interior. No.11 comprises early C15 service cell (originally a cross-wing) and early-mid C16 hall, the latter replacing medieval work. Service cell contains cross-entry: the front wall has half of original 2-centre arched doorway; joists show evidence for partitions and service doorways. Remains of original screen to former open hall has wide opening (now infilled) with knee braces. One-bay hall with large broach stop-chamfers to bridging beams. Heavy lintol over hall fireplace. No.13 comprises a single 2-bay cell of later C16, probably a parlour. Unmodernised, with most of timbers concealed. To rear of stack a newel stair, the lower part retaining C16 treads.

Listing NGR: TM1731163241

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

Legacy System number:
281497
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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