West Street Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
West Street Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- graven-sill-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Street Farmhouse, Walsham-Le-Willows, IP31 3AP
- OS grid reference
- TL 986 709
- Coordinates
- 52.30111, 0.91132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Street Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with an extension from the 18th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a fully hipped plain-tiled roof with an eaves overhang. It stands two storeys tall and has a three-cell layout. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft.
On the upper floor, there are three 2-light, 4-paned casement windows, while the ground floor has four larger 6-paned casements. A small, enclosed, gabled porch from the late 19th century has corbelled eaves and a semi-circular arched doorway, which contains a 6-panelled door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. At the rear, there are two single-storey pantiled lean-tos.
To the left of the internal stack, there are three 16th-century bays that were originally part of a two-cell end-chimney layout. The building features substantial, widely spaced studding and stud-to-stud arched bracing in the end walls. The two-bay service end was formerly divided into two, with a partition wall that has mostly been removed, but evidence of two doorways with rectangular heads remains. The joists are heavy and plain, unchamfered.
On the upper floor, there is a blocked 4-light window on the front wall with diamond mullions still in place, along with housings for additional diamond-mullioned windows in the gable end. The open truss has a cambered tie-beam and arched braces that spring from the jowls of the main posts. The upper ceilings are a later addition. The roof features simple clasped purlins with renewed collars. The chimney stack is a rebuild from the 18th century, and an 18th-century kitchen with inferior timbering has been added to the right of the stack.
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