Description

BROADHEMBURY BROADHEMBURY
SY 10 SW

5/48 The Old Colony formerly called
22.2.55 Glanville's Farmhouse

GV II

Former farmhouse. Late C16/early C17, late C20 renovations. Whitewashed rendered
cob and stone rubble; thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at left end, gabled at
right end; axial stack with a brick shaft, right end stack (shaft dismantled), stack
to the rear wing.
Plan: 3 room and through passage plan, unheated lower end to the left (west), hall
stack backing on to the passage and a formerly heated inner room. A series of
outshuts off the rear (north) wall provide a small buttery off the hall and service
rooms.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window south front, facing the former yard, with
a C20 front door to the passage to left of centre. To the right of the door 2 ground
floor windows retain late C16 or C17 moulded timber frames with C20 glazing, other
windows 2- and 3-light C20 timber casements with glazing bars. The rear (north)
elevation, facing the road, has a C19 or C20 plank rear door to the passage below a
slated pentice and 1 first floor 2-light and 1 ground floor 3-light C20 timberd
casement with glazing bars. To the left, a series of outshuts with catslide roofs.
Interior: The hall has a good open fireplace with chamfered Beerstone jambs a
chamfered timber lintel with mason's mitres and a bread oven. On the rear (north)
wall a good ovolo-moulded doorframe leads into the buttery outshut and, adjacent to
this, a C17 fitted dresser with 2 sets of cupboards and turned balusters survives in
the thickness of the wall. The hall/inner room partition has largely been removed,
the remains are oak studs formerly with a wattle infill with a blocked ovolo-moulded
doorframe. Only the chamfered timber lintel of the inner room fireplace survives.
Roof: One side-pegged jointed cruck truss survives, the apex is not smoke-blackened.
At the east end of an outstanding village characterized by cob and thatch.

Listing NGR: ST1026204713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390280

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)