Walnut Tree Inn Farmhouse
WALNUT TREE INN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352555
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Inn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE INN FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352555
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Inn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT TREE INN 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:
- WALNUT TREE INN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benacre
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 50449 85111
Details
BENACRE TM 58 NW 3/2 Walnut Tree Inn Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, at one time a coaching inn. Early C17 with later alterations. Probably originally timber framed, now red brick with a brick dentil eaves cornice. To the right there is early C18 brickwork with dark headers and a band at first floor level; to the left the brickwork is late C18/early C19, with the original lobby entrance bay set slightly forward. Plaintiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. 3-cell form. 4 windows, 2-light and 3-light mullion and transom casements under segmental arches. To the right is a good mid C18 doorcase with slightly engaged fluted columns, a panel for a rectangular fanlight and a modillion-corniced hood. Mid C20 door. In the position of the former lobby entrance is a mid C20 window. Internal stack and later external stack to the right hand gable end. The parlour and the room above have ovolo- moulded floor beams; some exposed joisting. The C18 serving hatch of the inn is still in position, with the original doors. A fire destroyed the roof over the right hand end of the house in the early C20.
Listing NGR: TM5044985111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282031
- 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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