Whitehouse Farmhouse

HOXNE HECKFIELD GREEN, TM 17 NE CHICKERING ROAD 8/96 Whitehouse Farmhouse 29.7.55 GV II Farmhouse. C16. Timber framed and plastered with a roof of modern plaintiles. 2 storeys and attic. 2-cell, lobby entry type. 2 windows, C18.casements of 4-lights. Intact late C18 doorway with convex frieze and heavy moulded pedimented cornice; 6-panel raised and fielded door, the upper 2 panels glazed. Internal stack, the external portion of the shaft rebuilt mid C20. To rear a slightly later narrow gabled addition, extended to each side in mid C20. Good interior with some fine exposed studding, much of it closely- spaced. Several original windows, some exposed externally in left gable end and rear, others blocked: chamfered, moulded and (in gables) diamond mullions. Remains of C16 doorway behind stack to rear, the arched head renewed. In the right gable end is a second C16 doorway (in situ) with original 4-centre arched head: a C16 doorway in this position in a farmhouse is very unusual. On the first floor a substantial section of a plank and muntin screen with some C17 panelling adjacent, sub-dividing one room. Newel stairs. Intact roof with clasped purlins and 2-way plank wind bracing.

Listing NGR: TM1894176060