Chestnut Farm House

THRANDESTON LITTLE GREEN (NORTH SIDE) TM 17 NW

2/124 Chestnut Farm House 29.7.55 (formerly listed as Chestnuts Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. c1700 and possibly earlier to rear, early C19 front range. Timber frame, plastered. Some red brick. Machine pantiled roofs. An L on plan: 3 bay front range of 2 storeys and attic with 3 bay 2 storey wing to rear right. Offset brick plinth. Projecting central bay to front with steps up to a part raised, part glazed 6 panelled door, lugged architrave, dentilled to leaded cornice, above a 2-light architraved casement window. Outer bays have ground floor 6-light mullion and transom casements in lugged architraves with hoodboards, first floor 3-light architraved casements, modillioned eaves cornice. Axial ridge stack slightly extruded on left gable end, exposed plates and double purlins. To rear right extends earlier wing with a boarded door to centre, brick lean-to addition to left, double doors to former coach house to right, first floor 3-light casement. Rebuilt axial ridge stack towards front. Early brick to rear gable end, initials 'OR' in iron on steeply pitched gable, round caped parapet. Extending further to rear a 1 storey slate roofed outbuilding with an external end stack. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM1138876546