Hill Farm Old House

ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET TM 38 NW 1/30 Hill Farm Old House - - II Former farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys: 3-cell lobby-entrance form. Timber- framed and rendered, with thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rendered shaft, and a C19 end stack on the south, set externally. 2 2- light old casement windows to first floor, and 2 similar 3-light casements to the ground floor, all with pintle hinges. An early C19 enclosed and gabled brick porch, colour-washed, with black-glazed pantiled roof: square hoodmoulds in Tudor style to doorway and side windows; plank door with applied pilaster strips. A small brick lean-to along the south side and part of the front. Frame in 4 bays, without a chimney-bay; the upper tie-beams have been cut or removed, and there is some reused timber; various blocked original mullioned windows. On the ground floor 2 ceilings are exposed: chamfered main beams and unchamfered joists, set flat. Roof with clasped purlins and windbraces. There is no evidence that the house had an open hall, but the internal chimney-stack may well be a later insertion. The kitchen has a cast iron oven door, and a fine range by Richmond of Bungay, set in a fireplace surround of c.1840.

Listing NGR: TM3442386691