Westhorpe Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Westhorpe Lodge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-zinc-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westhorpe Lodge Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the mid-17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, topped with a steeply pitched plain tiled roof, while the rear has pantiles. The layout consists of a broad three-cell cross passage plan, and the building has two storeys plus an attic.
On the ground floor, there is a disused cross passage entrance to the left of the center, which includes an early 19th-century recessed door that is half glazed and half fielded with four panels, framed by a doorcase with fluted pilasters and a cornice. To the right, leading into the parlour, is a largely glazed door with raised panels at the base and a similar doorcase. Further right, there is a recessed tripartite glazing bar casement, a large 20th-century bay window in the center, and a 20th-century two-light glazing bar casement to the left. The first floor has three tripartite glazing bar sash windows and boxed eaves.
An axial ridge stack is located between the hall and parlour, slightly to the right of the center, featuring four conjoined hexagonal shafts. An external kitchen stack has been added to the left end, complete with offsets and small flanking lean-tos that have three-light metal frame casements. At the rear of the hall and service bays, there is an early 19th-century extension with an altered roof pitch, and a 20th-century porch with a two-light leaded casement above it. Behind the cross passage, there is a six-over-nine pane staircase sash window in a moulded frame, a glazing bar sash to the left, and to the right, a small canted bay window with sash and a slate hood, positioned behind an axial stack. A catslide roof covers a lean-to addition behind the parlour.
Inside, the timber frame is largely concealed, with cross axial binding beams. The early 19th-century staircase features slat balusters, a columnar newel, and a ramped wreathed handrail. The roof has double butt purlins with collars to the principals. Additionally, there is a 17th-century Flemish carved wood fireplace surround that has been introduced.
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