Farmhouse At Sutes Farm

High Cross TL31 NE and TL 3618 STANDON HIGH ROAD (east side)

4/1 & 9/1 Farmhouse at Sutes Farm 4.12.51 (Formerly listed as Sutes Farmhouse)

GV II*

Farmhouse. C14 aisled hall of the Swote family, altered in C17 and later. Timber frame on brick sill, white weatherboarded, N wing plastered. Old red tile roofs. S range half-hipped, N wing hipped.. 2-storeys T-plan house facing W with N and NW sides rising sheer from the moat. The S range is the nave and E aisle of the former aisled hall. 2-bays and short screens passage to S (W aisle and service rooms to S demolished). On upper floor there are the posts, arcade-plates and curved braces of the aisled construction, tie-beam, arched braces and foot of crown- post of spere-truss. Only lengthwise braces to collar purlin remain. Large close-set joists in middle and E room of N wing on a chamfered beam with small brackets each end (C14). Alterations in C17 involved a floor and central chimney built in the hall and a kitchen chimney in the N wing. West extension c1700 unheated. Fireplace and stair of C19 with stair renewed in old turret in SE angle, and S range weatherboarded (RCHM Typescript: RCHM (1911) 208).

Listing NGR: TL3664119000