Listed Building: BUTTERFLY FARMHOUSE (279886)

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