Listed Building: EDGAR'S FARMHOUSE AND MUSEUM OF EAST ANGLIAN LIFE (384529)

STOWMARKET TM0458 Museum of East Anglian Life: Edgar's 614-1/4/4 Farmhouse 28/07/50 (Formerly Listed as: Abbot's Hall Museum: Edgar's Farmhouse) II* Formerly known as: Abbot's Hall Museum: Edgar's Farmhouse COMBS LANE. Aisled hall. c1340. Timber-framed, rendered and whitewashed. Pantiled roof. Windowless rectangular block with gabled roof. Double plank doors in west gable and single plank door in east gable walls, of 1972. Gable heads have drip-moulds and wall is open at apices of roof (now glazed) to allow smoke escape. INTERIOR. 2 bays remain, formerly with a third bay at lower end. 2 octagonal aisle posts stand on C20 concrete plinths and rise to arched braces on moulded capitals. The arched braces run to arcade plates and to tie beams. On the central, free tie, is an octagonal crown post with a moulded capital with 4 arched braces to the crown purlin and collar. 2 passing braces drop from the crown purlin through the tie beam, arcade posts and arcade struts to floor level. East and west walls with tiers of decorative arched and tension bracing. An exceptionally important C14 survival of high quality. Discovered when Edgar's Farm on Combs Lane was partially demolished to allow for re-development in 1972, dismantled and moved to this site. Listing NGR: TM0455458376