Lower Farmhouse
LOWER FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376961
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376961
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE, THE 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:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Troston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89636 72397
Details
TL 87 SE TROSTON THE STREET (EAST SIDE)
2/62 Lower Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. Circa 1600. 1 1/2 storeys. Timber-framed, partly rendered, but mainly encased in mid C19 red brick. Roof of reed thatch with decorated ridge. An internal chimney-stack with plain red brick shaft, and a C19 stack, set externally on the north end wall. Early C20 4-, 3-, and 2-light mullion-and- transome type windows with gauged heads to surrounds on ground storey: 3 gabled dormers with 3-light casement windows to upper storey: 3 eyebrow dormers along rear slope of roof. Lobby entrance inside a mid C19 5-sided brick porch with tented plaintiled roof. A single-storey brick lean-to, partly rendered with pantiled roof, runs the whole length of the rear wall. Studding and main ceiling-beams visible inside: 3-cell plan, but the third unit at north end may be an addition. At the south end, the partition which divided the service bay into 2 has been removed, and there is a blocked original window behind the brick facing on the upper storey of the gable.
Listing NGR: TL8963672397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284255
- 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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