Orchard Farmhouse
ORCHARD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352495
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08737/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352495
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD 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:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14310 65789
Details
WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD BLACKSMITH'S GREEN TM 16 NW 3/98 Orchard Farmhouse -
-- II Former farmhouse. Late C14/early C15 core, the parlour end to right rebuilt in mid C16. Timber framed, part rendered, part of front wall rebuilt in C19 colourwashed brick; mid C20 brick casing to right gable end. Pantiled roof, originally half-hipped at both ends. 3 cells. 1½ storeys. Various mid C20 casement windows, one secondary diamond-mullioned window opened out at parlour end. One raking dormer. Mid C20 boarded door in cross-entry. Stack has rendered shaft. Interior. Core comprises former open hall and associated service end. Some exposed framing but much later alteration. Evidence for rear hall window which had square mullions. Remains of 2-centre arched service doorways. Sooted coupled-rafter roof, substantially intact. Early C17 inserted ceiling has plain joists set on edge. At this time the central tie- beam was cut and the ends supported on queen-posts, arched-braced to a flat collar. Stack also of early C17, against upper end of hall; good intact fireplace in parlour chamber. 2 mortices in studs in rear wall provide evidence for a previous timber chimney. 2-bay parlour beyond stack: heavy full-height studding with evidence for diamond-mullioned windows. Closely- spaced plain joists, trimmed for a ladder stair at the rear, proof that this block was added before the hall was floored. First floor access to the parlour chamber was improved in early C17 by removing the tie beam against the stack and supporting a higher tie beam on cruck-like timbers set immediately in front of the wallposts.
Listing NGR: TM1431065789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281683
- 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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