Beacon Farmhouse
BEACON FARMHOUSE, BACON'S GREEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1352610
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- Statutory Address:
- BEACON FARMHOUSE, BACON'S GREEN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1352610
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Apr-1986
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEACON FARMHOUSE, BACON'S GREEN ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BEACON FARMHOUSE, BACON'S GREEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 41928 81381
Details
TM 48 SW WESTHALL BACON'S GREEN ROAD
3/39 Beacon Farmhouse (formerly - listed as Bacon's 1-9-55 Farmhouse)
- II*
Farmhouse. Mid C16 and early C17. 2 storeys. Timber-framed; rendered front, with the main posts left exposed, and traces of simple pargetting; the rear wall and south-west end faced in C19 red brick, colour-washed; pantiles, 2 chimney-stacks with plain red brick shafts. The house has an outstanding set of early C17 mullion-and-transome windows, mainly 4-light, with ovolo moulded mullions and chamfered transomes; pintle hinges. At the south-west end of the front, one 3-light diamond mullioned window on the ground floor. Of the same date, an enclosed and gabled red brick porch with a moulded lintel to the rectangular doorway and a fine ledged and battened door. Frame in 6 bays: at the north-east end of the front 2 main posts support sawn-off sections of an earlier and lower wallplate and have been heightened later; within the house, this section has a marked difference in the upper floor level. The main entrance door, formerly part of a cross-entry, leads directly into a 2-bay room with a fine moulded ceiling: multiple roll-mouldings to the main beam, and a single roll to the joists. The open fireplace in the same room has a plain timber lintel.
Listing NGR: TM4192881381
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 282113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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