Listed Building: CHURCH FARMHOUSE (279349)

EARL STONHAM FORWARD GREEN TM 15 NW 5/100 Church Farmhouse 9-12-55 - II Former farmhouse. Early C17 and early C18, altered mid C20. 3-cell plan. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with axial C17 chimney of red brick with sawtooth shaft; pierced crested ridge tiles, and carved C19 bargeboards to the parlour-block gable to right. Small-pane sashes and casements, mainly renewed in C20. Glazed entrance door in a long pantiled lean-to extension. The prominent parlour block has typical early C17 framing with on-edge floor joists and close-studding (many studs are broad and reused), and 3 open fireplaces; that serving the hall reuses for a lintel a roll-moulded C16 beam carved with a trailing vine motif, punctuated with bunches of grapes. The lower hall range was totally rebuilt in C18, and has fully-exposed primary-braced studding. Listing NGR: TM1072358836