Catlyns Farmhouse
CATLYNS FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381344
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Catlyns Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CATLYNS FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381344
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Catlyns Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATLYNS FARMHOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- CATLYNS FARMHOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 22807 76587
Details
TM 27 NW WINGFIELD
1220/5/10004 Church Road
Catlyns Farmhouse
II
House. Mid C16, re-roofed late C17, and alterations of C19 and C20. Timber-frame, partly with C19 brick skin; pantiled roof. Converted to 2 houses c. 1850, and converted back to one house C20.
PLAN: floored parlour-hall-services plan, with the hall and services amalgamated into one room. Framing of 4 bays, with wider bay in centre.
EXTERIOR: west front of 2 storeys; 2-window range. Flemish bond red brick skin on a tarred brick plinth. C20 gabled weatherboarded porch to left and a C20 casement to right of elevation, blocking a C19 doorway. Centre of elevation with 2 2-light casements each floor. Bell-based gabled roof and central rendered and colourwashed ridge stack.
East front is 4-window range. First floor with exposed studs and a tension brace at the south corner. Exposed bressumer of former full-length jetty. Ground floor underbuilt in brick: C20 doorway to left under an open gabled hood. C19 casement to right doubling as a doorway, under a semi-circular timber head. 2 casements between these, and a further casement to extreme south. First floor with one 3-light hollow-moulded mullioned window to south and 2 similar, 4-light windows to north. One C20 casement in centre.
North gable plastered and colourwashed. One 3-light casement to each floor.
Bricked south gable with one 2-light casement to first floor and a single-storey extension of 1960s to ground floor.
INTERIOR: south ground-floor room with a chamfered dragon beam with tongue stops into the south-west corner, indicating former jetty to east and south returns. Main bridging beam with chamfers and tongue stops to west side. Plain flat joists. Fireplace with chamfered bressumer.
North rooms opened into one, with 2 supporting posts added to carry bridging beam, one of which is a reused jowled principal stud. Studwork exposed to north and west elevations. Chamfered fireplace bressumer with elaborate tongue stop to west side. Built in mid C19 cupboard west of stack, with triangular plank backboards. Staircase in boarded well in north-west corner.
First floor with inserted passage on west side. Jowled principal studs with tension bracing to corners and arched braces to posts defining wider central framing bay (remaining to south truss only). South end of passage with C16 3-plank door under a 4-centred head. North room with close studding to south wall and a cambered tie beam. South room with close studding to south wall and C16 rebate in tie beam for a window shutter; inserted strengthening wall plate to east wall.
Late C17 roof of common rafters, one tier of clasped purlins and collars.
Listing NGR: TM2280776587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481704
- 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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