Church Farm House

THRANDESTON LITTLE GREEN (SOUTH SIDE) TM 17 NW

2/125 Church Farm House 29.7.55

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs. 3 cell cross passage plan with 2 bay service wing to rear left to form an L. 2 storeys and attics. Cross passage entrance towards left in a late C19 brick and stained glass gabled porch with bargeboards. C19 part opening casement windows, 6 and 9 panes on ground floor with some leaded lights, first floor 2 and 3-lights. Boxed eaves. Axial ridge stack between hall and parlour to right of centre, large base broached to 3 separate octagonal shafts with moulded bases. Left return to slightly lower service wing with an entrance in rear bay, 3-light casements. Slightly higher ridge towards main range with an original stack, rebuilt at cap. Rear gable end C19 external stack, exposed plates and purlins. Main range to rear has an entrance behind stack, half glazed, half panelled door, French windows to parlour. In inner angle forward section of rear wing is broader to accommodate stairs, lean-to outshut addition. Interior: triple ovolo moulded axial binding beams in parlour and hall, hollow and ovolo moulded 4 centred brick fireplace arch in parlour, stop chamfered binding beams in service rooms. First floor ovolo moulded cross axial binding beams, jowled posts, close studding with tension braces, cambered tie beams to double butt purlin roof with collars, windbraces. Part of a moat lies to south of house. (East Anglian Miscellany, 1916, pp53-9).

Listing NGR: TM1154276400