Fen Street Farm House

REDGRAVE FEN STREET (SOUTH SIDE) TM 07 NE 2/63 Fen Street Farm House - 15.11.54 -- II Farmhouse. Mid C16, earlier origins possible, altered C20. Timber frame on brick base, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roof, partly black glazed. 5 bay 3 cell cross entry plan. 2 storeys. Entrance in cross entry position to left of centre, a boarded door in a C20 gabled porch, to left or service end a C19 tiled brick oven outshut, C20 casements with an earlier 3-light glazing bar casement to right on first floor. Boxed eaves. Large axial ridge stack to right of centre with drip courses, C19 kitchen stack inserted to front left. Right end pentice boards. Left end lean-to dairy, attic 2-light casement. To rear cross entry blocked, a lobby entrance with brackets to hood. Interior: close studding, hall and parlour jowled storey posts with stop chamfered cross axial binding beams and joists, 2 chamfered service door heads, newel stair behind stack. First floor: a splayed and tabled scarf joint in rear wall plate, cranked arched braces in walls, arched braces to cambered tie beams, inserted chamfered axial binding beam, early C18 panelling to passageway. Queen post roof with cranked braces from posts to plates/purlins and reverse cranked braces from posts to collars, originally hipped over service end.

Listing NGR: TM0509278976