Orchard Farmhouse

ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW CLARKE'S LANE TM 38 NE 2/6 Orchard Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse, marked on the O.S. map as 'Birchams Farm'. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics; 3-cell lobby entrance form. Timber-framed, plastered, clay pantiles. An internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt shaft of old red brick. At the base of the shaft is a small empty recessed panel with moulded surround. 3 old cross windows to the ground floor, and 2, with one plain 2- light casement window, to the upper floor; 2 gabled dormers with plain 2-light casement windows. Above the entrance is an original 3-light diamond-mullioned window, and on the upper floor of the rear are 2 more mullioned windows, one 3-light with ovolo moulding, the other 4-light with the outer moulding hacked off. An early C19 gabled porch, rendered and pantiled, with an arched opening. The entrance doorway inside has a pointed Gothic arch, and a door with 2 matching half-glazed leaves with Gothic tracery. Main beans visible inside; newel stair by the stack. At the north end, a C19 single-storey lean-to in red brick with pantiled roof projects forward beyond the line of the main front. It is unoccupied and becoming derelict.

Listing NGR: TM3818987854