Listed Building: HOME FARMHOUSE (280220)

STRADBROKE NEAVES LANE TM 27 SW 3/100 Home Farmhouse 29.7.55 -- II Farmhouse. Mid C16 core with considerable C18-C19 alterations and additions, including new roof and a wing to rear. Timber framed and plastered with roof of glazed black pantiles. 2 storeys and attic. Various casement windows, mainly of C19 and C20. Half-glazed 4-panel door. Gabled 2-storey porch addition, probably of c.1600, with a mid C20 flat-roofed forward extension of the main range adjoining to the right. Internal and gable stacks with C19 white brick shafts. To rear, an early C19 doorway with 6-panel door, frieze and bracketed cornice. In the parlour there is a fine moulded beam and joist ceiling with run-out stops and soffits with sunk spandrels. The hall has an early C19 fireplace flanked by contemporary 3-centre arched cupboards. Mary Warner of Boyton in 1736 gave various estates in trust for charitable purposes, including this farm from which a schoolmaster derived £10 a year for teaching 12 poor children. This came into effect in 1757 at her death. To the west and south there is part of a medieval moat and fish ponds. Listing NGR: TM2355073661