Description

TL 76 NE
3/106

GREAT SAXHAM
NEWMARKET ROAD
Symonds Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, late C18, perhaps with earlier C18 core. Pretentious red brick
facade on 3 storeys masking a 2-span gable front slated roof. Main range 3
windows wide, flanked by 1-storey lean-to's with parapets, 1 window wide. A
brick pediment surmounts the central section, defined by carved brick dentils,
with blank roundel in tympanum. An urn stands on each end of the pediment. The
left hand lean-to is false with a dummy window, the right-hand one masks a
pantiled pantry. Casements with segmental brick heads. 6 fielded-panel
entrance door with matching panelled reveals, architrave and flat canopy. A mid
C18 type staircase in short flights through 3 floors at the rear, with turned
balusters. 6-panel doors, window shutters, a panelled corner cupboard. The
house is vacant and in poor condition.

Listing NGR: TL7847065479

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26476520

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)