CROFT HOUSE

CROFT HOUSE, THE GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376894
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: CROFT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CROFT HOUSE, THE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376894
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: CROFT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CROFT HOUSE, THE GREEN

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CROFT HOUSE, THE GREEN

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bardwell
National Grid Reference:: TL 94374 73723

Details

The entry for the following building:-

TL 9273-9373 BARDWELL THE GREEN (west side)

5/16 Croft House

- II

shall be amended to read:

TL 9273-9373 BARDWELL THE GREEN (west side)

5/16 Croft House

- 14.12.83 II*

House. C15. Timber framed, with timbers exposed along front; close studding with tension braces to upper storey, considerable later studding to ground storey. Rendered on sides and rear. Thatched, half-hipped roof. 3-cell form with former open hall. Internal chimney stack with 2 attached shafts set diagonally. Various casement windows of C19 and C20. 2 original windows to upper floor, one to extreme left with diamond mullions in situ, and other secondary window openings, some blocked. Doorway to right, in position of cross-entry; C18 6-panel door with 2 glazed upper panels, C20 open porch, gabled and thatched. Original arched doorway at rear with C20 door. Interior: Some good exposed studding with evidence for various diamond- mullioned windows. Fine hall open truss: massive braces to tie beam forming 4-centred arch, plank spandrels, octagonal crown-post with moulded base and cap and 4-way bracing at the head. All roof timbers in hall are heavily sooted. Intact lower end wall of hall with pair of hollow-chamfered 4- centre arched service doorways. 2-bay parlour: knee-braced bridging beam (one brace renewed), heavy plain joists. 7 joists in the centre of the room are trimmed just short of the gable end, with no original framing underneath; this seems to be original work but its purpose is unclear. Parlour chamber open truss altered: tie beam replaced by cruck-like timbers supporting a new tie-beam at a higher level; this now carries the shortened octagonal crown-post, which retains its moulded cap and 4-way bracing Remainder of roof intact. Part of earlier thatch base coat (fleeking) visible. Late C16 inserted floor in hall: heavy cross-beams with nicked stepped stop-chamfers, chamfered joists with bar stops. Studded screen against cross-passage is C16 or C17. Stack inserted in upper bay of hall: large open fireplace in hall with original lintel, late C17 cupboard to one side. Parlour fireplace rebuilt mid C20. Against the stack is a C17 newel stair with carved finial to newel post.

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TL 9273-9373 BARDWELL THE GREEN (West Side) 5/16 Croft House -

- II

House. C16. 2 storeys: 6 bays. Timber-framed, with timbers exposed along front, rendered on sides and rear. Thatched, half-hipped roof. Internal chimney-stack with 2 attached square shafts, set diagonally. Early C19 3-light casement windows to ground storey, 2-light to upper storey. Various blocked windows in upper storey: 3 original, 2 with mullions in situ, and 2 secondary openings, cut through frame. 6-panel door at extreme north end, with C20 open porch, gabled and thatched. The framing is puzzling: tension bracing to upper storey, and considerable replacement of studding to ground storey. The northern half has evidence of an inserted main beam, and may well have a medieval core. Several bays are very short, with intermediate main posts, running the whole height of the frame, between them.

Listing NGR: TL9437673727

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Legacy System number:: 283993
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.