Fen House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Former farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Fen House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-granite-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Former farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
EARL STONHAM FEN LANE TM 05 NE 4/98 Fen House - - II
Former farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16, altered and extended C20. A 3-cell open hall house. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Hipped thatched roof with axial chimney of red brick. Mainly late C20 casements. Thatched gabled C20 entrance porch with boarded door. A substantially-built and relatively unaltered late-mediaeval house. The open hall is in two bays, the open truss having a cambered tie-beam, with massive chamfered arch-braces springing from pilasters rising from floor level (one brace is missing). Tension-braced close studwork and heavy unchamfered joists. Good complete smoke-blackened coupled-rafter roof. In late C16/early C17 a chimney was placed in the cross entry and an upper floor of chamfered joists inserted into the hall; the service rooms were united, and the house functionally "reversed" - the service accommodation being placed at the right-hand end. The rear wing to right is a C20 extension, possibly remodelling a pre-existing structure.
Listing NGR: TM0932557382
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