Elm Farmhouse

ELM FARMHOUSE, ST JAMES' LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352648
Date first listed:
27-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Elm Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ELM FARMHOUSE, ST JAMES' LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352648
Date first listed:
27-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Elm Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ELM FARMHOUSE, ST JAMES' LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ELM FARMHOUSE, ST JAMES' LANE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
St. James, South Elmham
National Grid Reference:
TM 32113 80889

Details

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. JAMES ST. JAMES' LANE TM 38 SW

4/54 Elm Farmhouse -

- II

Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed, rendered on the south gable, the remainder encased in later C19 red brick, laid in Flemish Bond; old plaintiles. 2 chimney-stacks, one of plain red brick, set internally, the-other on the rear wall at the north end, with 2 attached square red brick shafts. 3 window range: large-paned sashes, with a single vertical glazing-bar to lights, set in shallow reveals; flat gauged brick arches on the ground floor. Plank entrance door, below a similar gauged arch, set into a 2-storey canted porch with a small 3-sided roof; a sash window in each of the side walls flanking the door, and 3 similar windows on the floor above. 3-cell lobby-entrance form, with only main components uncovered in most of the interior. To the right of the entry, the ground floor room has chamfered main beams and joists with scroll stops; in the room above, the cross-beams of the ceiling are ovolo-moulded. The upper ceilings are original. Roof in 7 bays of irregular width: one row of clasped, and one of unstepped butt purlins, the latter with pared-off ends; arched windbraces. A small C18 wing at rear: single storey, rendered and pantiled.

Listing NGR: TM3211380889

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
282314
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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