Description

TM 36 SW PARHAM THE STREET

4/162 The Church
25.10.51 Farmhouse

- II*

Farmhouse. Probably late C15, the central range raised and re-
roofed late C17. Central range with cross wings at each end.
Timber framed and plastered, plaintiled roof. 2 storeys, the
central range with a now disused attic. Late C17/early C18
casement windows, mostly with square leaded panes; cross passage
entry: doorway of same date with 4-panel bolection moulded door,
hood on console brackets, broken ogee pediment with scrolled
terminals; central range with rusticated surrounds to the windows
and doorway and a heavy moulded modillion eaves cornice, broken
over the windows. The right hand wing has a jettied first floor on
carved buttress shafts and an oriel window with carved sill showing
a dog and stag supporting a shield bearing the arms of the de
Uffords, Earls of Suffolk, with small figures of a man and dog to
the extreme left and right. Internal stack to central range with
moulded base and 4 grouped hexagonal flues; internal stack to right
hand wing, rebuilt external stack to left hand wing. Fully
panelled early C18 ground floor room with painted panels over the
fireplace and one doorway; another room has C17 panelling with
painted overmantel and a brick fireplace with 4-centre arch;
further panelling in cross passage. Main staircase with twisted
balusters; late C17 ornamental plaster ceiling to main first floor
room with a running floral design on the main beams; several fine
internal doors, 3 of which in the main first floor room have been
painted to resemble tortoiseshell. Country Life 25.9.58 (pp.650-1).

Listing NGR: TM3082160628

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545973

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)