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Latitude: 52.1691 / 52°10'8"N
Longitude: 0.9285 / 0°55'42"E
OS Eastings: 600364
OS Northings: 256361
OS Grid: TM003563
Mapcode National: GBR SJQ.TVY
Mapcode Global: VHKDN.1RQ0
Plus Code: 9F425W9H+J9
Entry Name: Butterfly Farmhouse
Listing Date: 22 January 1988
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197984
English Heritage Legacy ID: 279886
ID on this website: 101197984
Location: High Street Green, Mid Suffolk, IP14
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Great Finborough
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Great Finborough St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Farmhouse
GREAT FINBOROUGH BOROUGH LANE
TM 05 NW
2/111 Butterfly Farmhouse
II*
Former farmhouse, circa 1570 with alterations of c.1620. Original house of 3-
cell cross-entry form; a 2-cell cross-wing added to north end c.1620. 2
storeys. Timber-framed and plastered; the textured daub-plaster has been
maintained in the traditional manner. The cross-wing has ovolo-moulded
oversailing gable tiebeams. Plaintiled roofs; an axial C17 chimney of buff
brick, the shaft rebuilt with original bricks in c.1970; another axial C17
chimney in the crosswing with a sawtooth shaft of red brick. Windows of many
periods: several C16 diamond-mullioned windows at 1st storey, now glazed. A
large ovolo-mullioned and transomed early C17 staircase window; a similar
chamber window of oriel form with moulded cill. Mid C19 windows with iron
small-pane casements; some C20 casements. Boarded C19 entrance door. Some
original or c.1600 pargetting now on an internal wall: highly textured large
panels with sunk strapwork designs; of interest because an unusually early
example of pargetting. A good dogleg staircase of c.1620 was placed in the
earlier service cell. A large fragment of C17 painted wall decoration in the
form of vertical strips in one chamber. Several C17 arched fireplaces. The
C17 cross-wing comprises a kitchen and parlour, both with good open
fireplaces, the former is constructed of very heavy framing, including
unchamfered floorjoists and fireplace lintel, reused from an early C16
structure. Wind-braced clasped-purlin roofs. Suffolk Houses: Eric Sandon,
1977.
Listing NGR: TM0036456361
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