Charity Farmhouse
CHARITY FARMHOUSE, STONEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377394
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Charity Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHARITY FARMHOUSE, STONEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377394
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Charity Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARITY FARMHOUSE, STONEY ROAD
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:
- CHARITY FARMHOUSE, STONEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 20004 53940
Details
OTLEY STONEY ROAD TM 25 SW (East side) 8/115 - Charity Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse, formerly small manor house. Early C15 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed and brick with colourwashed render. Plain tiled roof, probably originally thatched. Two storeys and attic. Formerly central open hall with 2-storey wings to either end. Entrance front: slightly projecting wing to left which has, at ground floor level, a 3- light casement (of C19 date as is all the fenestration). The jettied first floor has a similar window and the gable is jettied with a blocked 2-light window. To right of this the hall range has a gabled porch at left with a ½-glazed door and at right of that are three 3-light ground floor casements. The first floor also has three 3-light casements. To the ridge at left of centre is a C17 stack of 2 flues. The right hand gable end has, at ground floor level, a 3-light window, a 2-light window to right of the first floor and a similar 2-light window to the attic. Rear: projecting outshut with a catslide roof at left of C19 and C20, with a ½-glazed door at right and left. To right of this, slightly recessed, is a wing with a 3-light ground floor casement and a first floor 2-light casement. To left, at first floor level, is a 2-light flat-roofed dormer window. Two-flue stack at left.
Interior: The ground floor room in the northern wing has a heavily-moulded beam which may be brought from elsewhere. To the southern end of the ground floor are further decorated axial ceiling joists. The central 2-bay hall has moulded wall posts visible to both floors and a massive cambered tie beam to the central truss. Within the attic is an octagonal crown-post with slightly cavetto sides, richly moulded cap and base and 4 arched braces connecting to a common rafter and the crown purlin. At either end are terminal, square crown posts with further single arched braces. There is soot blackening.
Listing NGR: TM2000453940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286528
- 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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