White House Farmhouse
WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352617
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352617
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Margaret, Ilketshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 36337 84034
Details
ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET HIGH STREET TM 38 SE 3/36 White House Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics; 2-cell plan. Timber-framed and rendered, with C20 single roman tiles. An internal chimney stack with 4 attached diagonally-set shafts on a square base in a mixture of small red and yellow bricks. 2 old 4-light casements with transomes to the upper storey, and 2 3-light C20 casement windows with a single bar to lights on the ground floor, replacing older windows in the same style. Central entrance door with 4 applied panels, panelled pilasters, and entablature with console brackets. Main beams only exposed on the ground floor. 2 open fireplaces, with plain timber lintels, one with a rounded back to the hearth; on the upper floor, one fireplace with an early C19 cast iron hob grate. Original upper ceilings exposed: cambered tie-beams, joists with chamfer and run-off stops. Blocked original windows; reversed braces at the corners. Original ladder stair to attic. Roof with full principal rafters cut away for the insertion of clasped side purlins, a lower row of unstepped butt purlins and cranked windbraces. A 1½ storey lean-to addition along the rear, with colour-washed brick walling, contains ceilings of reused timber, and has led to some rearrangement of layout in the main part of the house.
Listing NGR: TM3633784034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282253
- 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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