Fen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Farmhouse.
Fen Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-gateway-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fen Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with an extension added around 1600. It has one storey and attics, as well as two storeys. Originally, the house was built in a three-cell layout; a parlour block was added to the right, and the hall was enlarged from the earlier parlour block around 1600. The structure is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with a thatched roof featuring one 19th-century casement dormer.
There is an axial chimney from around 1600 made of very narrow pink and buff bricks. The farmhouse includes a complete set of mid-19th-century windows with small-paned cast iron casements. A 19th-century gabled porch is located at the cross-entry position, featuring a half-glazed four-panelled door. Inside, the earlier building shows close-studding and plain unchamfered floor joists, while the later work includes chamfered joists and beams with lambstongue stops. There is also a blocked diamond-mullioned window. The later roof features a pair of principal rafters with a collar beam and windbraced clasped purlins. A wide lintelled open fireplace is present in the hall.
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