Rectory Farm House

THRANDESTON GREAT GREEN (SOUTH SIDE) TM 17 NW

2/113 Rectory Farm House -

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Farmhouse. Early to mid C16, stack inserted in C17, altered and extended in C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered; with some brick casing and extension. Steeply pitched machine tiled roof. Originally 5 bays with a central smoke bay between large hall and parlour. Service range, probably detached, no longer survives. 1 bay extension at lower end of hall. 2 storeys, originally continuously jettied along front. Ground floor underbuilt in brick with two 2-light windows to left or parlour bays with cambered key blocked heads, a similar window to added right bay. C20 lean-entrance porch to centre, first floor C20 2-light casements. Boxed eaves. Rebuilt axial ridge stack to original centre. Left or parlour gable end has ground floor brick cladding and may have been jettied, C17 acanthus consoles to wall plates. Right gable end is C19 brick with an internal end stack. To rear exposed brick at base of main stack, C20 casements and a C20 lean-to outshut. Interior: hall is richly moulded, crossed binding beams and storey posts are continuously and completely roll, wave and hollow moulded; upper end, joists and mid rails all similarly treated. Parlour has slightly simpler mouldings to binding beams and joists. Blocked cross passage doors at lower end of hall. Close studding throughout. First floor: large 4 and 5-light complex ovolo mullioned window openings, moulded binding beams, reverse curved bracing in end wall. Queen post roof with cranked longitudinal braces from posts to arcade plates/purlins. Partly moated site.

Listing NGR: TM1220176791