Listed Building: ABBEY FARMHOUSE (280883)

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Grade II
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Volume/Map/Item 280883
Date assigned 18 April 1988
Date last amended

Description

WOOLPIT THE GREEN TL 96 SE 1/130 Abbey Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse. Early C16 with alterations of early C17 and c.1970. One storey and attics. A 2-cell open hall house with major additions. Timber- framed and plastered. Thatched roof with an axial C17 chimney of pink/buff brick, and another external gable chimney also C17. An eyebrow casement dormer. Mid C20 small-pane casements. Boarded C20 entrance door. A 2-bay open hall has a storeyed cell at the east end. Arch windbraced widely-spaced studding. Queenpost roof (the open truss has been removed). Unchamfered 1st floor joists. A C17 inserted 1st floor in the hall has on-edge joists. A wide lintelled open fireplace of this date in the 2nd cell. Two single-cell extensions added either side in C17: one has a lintelled parlour fireplace and the other a diamond mullioned window. Listing NGR: TL9757161324

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Grid reference TL 97571 61324 (point)
Map sheet TL96SE

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May 25 2021 11:20AM

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