Pump House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House.
Pump House
- WRENN ID
- slow-beam-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pump House is a house with a shop that has early 16th century origins. It was extended, altered, and reroofed around 1600, with further alterations and extensions in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, topped by a steeply pitched roof covered in plain tiles. It has a three-cell cross-entry plan, which was originally likely smaller and included an open hall.
The structure has two storeys and has been modified to include a lobby entrance to the left of centre, complete with a hoodboard. To the right, there are flanking two-light glazing bar casements, and at the service end, there is a three-over-two pane architraved sash window that was formerly a shop window. On the first floor, there are three two-light casements beneath boxed eaves. A ridge stack is located to the left of centre, positioned between the hall and parlour, with its cap rebuilt. The right end features a disused single-light casement and a bracket to the front plate, along with exposed double purlins. At the rear, there are mixed casements along with a 20th-century two-storey wing covered in pantiles.
Inside, the hall contains posts with shafts and mortices for arched braces leading to a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, which may have originally supported open truss arched braces. The close studding has been altered and includes a mid-rail. In the parlour, there is a stop-chamfered axial binding beam with reverse cranked arched braces in the walling, along with traces of diamond mullioned windows. On the first floor, the arched braces to the tie beams have been altered, and the roof features double butt purlins with collars to the principals and altered wind bracing.
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