Church Farmhouse

CHURCH FARMHOUSE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1377417
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
Church Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1377417
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
Church Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH 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.

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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:
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, THE STREET

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Pettistree
National Grid Reference:
TM 29927 54873

Details

PETTISTREE THE STREET TM 25 SE (North side) 9/123 16/3/66 Church Farmhouse GV II

Farmhouse, at one time subdivided into 3 cottages but now restored to one dwelling. Later C16 or C17 with mid-C19 facing. Timber framed with colourwashed render and a plaintile roof, originally thatched. Two storeys with attic. Three-cell, baffle-entry plan. Entrance front: plank doors to far right and far left with a half-glazed doorway at left of centre, now blocked up. In front of each door is a gabled porch supported by moulded brackets attached to wallposts with decoratively pierced bargeboards. Three 3-light casements to the ground floor and 3 similar windows to the first floor. To left of centre is a gable with a 2-light attic window and decorative bargeboards. To the ridge at right of centre is a rectangular chimney stack with 2 octagonal flues and to the left hand gable end is a similar stack. Left hand gable end: Flemish bond walling with central stack with offsets and diapered diamond patterns in black brick at either side of it. Two attic windows with cambered heads and decorative bargeboards to the gable. Right hand gable end: 3-light ground floor window, a 3-light first floor and a 2-light attic window. Attached at right is a lean-to outshut of brick with a 3-light window. Rear: mostly masked by a C20 outshut with a pantile roof and random fenestration. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams with end stops supported by jowled wall posts with ogee mouldings. Chamfered joists with run-out end stops. Brick fireplace to the hall with chamfered bressumer and coved at its top to support the first floor hearth. Close studding to the walls. Winder staircase leading up from the lobby to the first floor and on to the attic. The first floor shows close studded walling with reversed arch bracing and one 2-light window with chamfered mullions. Thin, deep collars with common rafters showing to the attic.

Listing NGR: TM2992754873

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
286536
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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