Farmstead record HEP 053 - Farmstead: Street Farm

Street Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed Os map. The farmstead is laid out in a regular H-plan with the farmhouse detached and set away from the yard. The farmstead sits alongside a public road in a hamlet location. This farmstead survives intact with conversion for residential use. (S1-4)

Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.

Level 2 building record of the Barn at Street Farm. The barn is a three bay timber framed building with an aisle on the west side. The barn has been subject to considerable alteration, parts of the seventeenth century timberframe in the barn survives. Also surviving are the remains of nineteenth century clay lump walling.It has been encased with corrugated iron sheeting, painted green, replacing weatherboard cladding, and the entire roof structure has been removed and replaced by an
asymmetrical roof at a lower pitch, also clad in corrugated iron.It has a pair of doors in the middle bay facing east and a twentieth century fixed window inserted in the bay to the south of the doors. The building has been extended to the south in the nineteenth century with a two storey ‘bay’ of clay lump
and red brick, clad externally in corrugated iron sheets. There are no openings on the north gable end, where formerly a building attached running northwards on the road and removed between 1958 and 1965.