Eel Farmhouse
EEL FARMHOUSE, FEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387276
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Eel Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EEL FARMHOUSE, FEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387276
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Eel Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EEL FARMHOUSE, FEN 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:
- EEL FARMHOUSE, FEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Buckenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0496691540
Details
TM09SW
84/3/10010
OLD BUCKENHAM
FEN ROAD (South side)
Eel Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Mid C15, altered C17 and C19. Plastered and colourwashed timber frame; pantiled roof. Hall house plan, floored in early C17.
EXTERIOR: north front of 2 storeys; 3-window range. One 2-light and one 3-light late C18 casements to ground floor and one mid C20 3-light metal window to left. One 4-paned first-floor window. One raking dormer fitted with a 2-light casement. Blocked doorway right of centre. Rendered ridge stack left of centre.
South front with 5 2- or 3-light casements, and one C20 2-light casement in raking dormer. East gable end has marks of blocked attic window. West gable end with single-storey late C19 gabled extension with one 2-light casement, a plank door and a brick stack.
INTERIOR: timber frame of very heavy scantling. East ground-floor room with early C17 bridging beam with sunk quadrant mouldings and jewelled tongue stops. C20 fire insert in C17 stack, with bread oven to its left. Left and right of chimneybreast is one 2-panelled early C19 door. South stack lobby with early C17 winder staircase, and in room immediately west are both chamfered arched braces to the principal hall truss. Immediately west is hall screens passage with 2 blocked arched openings separated by a heavy principal stud. The timber arches are chamfered. Chamfered bridging beam runs from the stud to the stack.
First-floor east room has tie beam on straight braces. Blocked gable-end window. Fine C17 stone fireplace bressumer: 4-centred opening with hollow and ogee mouldings, and painted spandrels (red ochre). C17 floorboards in this room and in floored hall next west. Principal hall truss of a tie beam on arched braces, with queen posts rising to smoke-blackened collar. Remains of a second such truss to east. Queen posts with chamfered corners ending in broach stops. Remainder of roof structure renewed. West room without first-floor access.
Listing NGR: TM0496691540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475210
- 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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