Stuston Place Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. A C17 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Stuston Place Farm House
- WRENN ID
- moated-lancet-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farmhouse. It dates from around 1600, with extensions from the 18th century, alterations and additions in the mid-19th century, and further later changes. The farmhouse is timber-framed, now largely concealed by a red brick casing. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with machine tiles. Originally it was shaped like an "L," but additions to the left created a "T" shape, incorporating a kitchen and dairy.
The front range comprises two large sections with a central entrance leading to a cross passage behind the hall stack. The front door is recessed, with panelled jambs and a bracketed cornice with decorative drops. To the left is a single-story, sashed bay window with a cornice, while to the right and on the first floor are recessed sash windows with single glazing bars. Ground floor windows have gauged brick flat arches with a stone key block. The farmhouse has a plinth and boxed eaves. Axial ridge stacks have overhanging caps, situated at the original left end and to the right of the entrance. The roof was raised at the front, with lower eaves at the rear. A sash window is located in the right gable end attic.
The rear of the main block and the inner return of the parlour wing feature sash windows in red brick, with some 20th-century casements, ground floor French windows, and a cross passage door opening into a 20th-century conservatory. The two-bay parlour wing, extending to the rear left, has a slightly higher ridge and eaves with a hip roof at the rear. The outer elevation of this wing is plastered, with a large external stack featuring offsets.
An 18th-century kitchen addition to the front left has a lower ridge and shallower pitch to the roof. The front is red brick, with an entrance on the right, mixed window styles, cambered brick heads on the ground floor, and plastering at the rear. This was further extended to the left in the 19th century, with a ridge stack between the two sections.
Inside, there are ovolo moulded cross-axial binding beams throughout. The hall retains close studding and an original large window frame with ovolo moulding, king mullions, and diamond mullions. The parlour has shaped jowled storey posts, while the kitchen features an ogee stop chamfered binding beam. The roof structure includes double side purlins, butt purlins, curved wind braces, and upper clasped purlins to the front range.
Attached to the kitchen wing and projecting into the yard is a 19th-century outbuilding. This single-story structure is rendered with quoined red brick dressings and a slate roof. It consists of a three-bay dairy with two entrances and a stack, alongside a range of sheds with two doors and mixed casements.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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