Pear Tree Farmhouse

PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1352466
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
Statutory Address:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE

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Date:
2005-02-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1352466
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
Statutory Address 1:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE

Location

Statutory Address:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Ashfield cum Thorpe
National Grid Reference:
TM 21210 63198

Details

ASHFIELD CUM THORPE TM 26 SW

5/1 Pear Tree Farmhouse - - II

Former farmhouse. C15 core with C16-C17 alteration. Wing to north added c.1985. Timber framed and plastered; roof clad in synthetic slates. 3-cell form. 1 1/2 storeys. Mid C20 casement windows. Cross-entry has mid C20 gabled porch with boarded and battened door. 3 flat-roofed dormers with standard small-paned windows. Internal stack with rendered shaft. Interior. Modernised. Some full-height studding, exposed mainly in the front wall. A pair of wallposts have blocked mortices for braces supporting the central truss over an open hall. Evidence for hall window. Stack inserted in upper end of hall, perhaps preceded by a timber flue. Inserted hall ceiling has heavy chamfered bridging beam, probably C16, not resting on wallposts. Joists concealed. Heavy plain square joists in parlour, trimmed for a stairtrap. Square-headed service doorways of late C16/early C17. The roof is a post- medieval replacement, probably C17.

Listing NGR: TM2121063198

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Legacy System number:
281425
Legacy System:
LBS

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