Chalk Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. House.
Chalk Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-mortar-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 7182 LAKENHEATH HIGH STREET
11/26 Chalk Farmhouse -
- II
House and surgery. c.1700 with C15 core and alterations of C19 and C20. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Flint and brick rubble with quoins of gault brick. Hipped plaintiled roof with rear chimney of red brick. Windows with segmental arches of gault brick, and small-pane sashes mainly of 3 lights. Partly glazed panelled C19 entrance'door with architrave and gabled canopy on carved brackets. To the rear of the front range is a small part of a substantial C15 house of clunch with limestone dressings, with on each floor an open fireplace flanked by a garderobe to right, and a newel staircase to left. About 8 doorways survive, some still having 4-centred arched heads, also a stone mullioned window. The front range may have a C15 core, but all visible features, including a good oak-framed roof with butt-purlins and massive principals, are of late C17. The rear wing was almost rebuilt C18, and again mid C20.
Listing NGR: TL7136482988
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