Farmstead record GRT 034 - Farmstead: Spout Farm

Spout Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed Os map. The farmstead is laid out in a linear plan with the farmhouse detached and set away from the yard. The farmstead sits alongside a public road in a loose farmstead cluster. This farmstead survives intact. (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.

Spout Farm’s Main House/Spout Farmhouse is a 16th/17th century timber framed and plastered house with remnants of an earlier structure in a west chamber. The main south façade has a tall single storey range to its west end, a gabled central range and a single storey mono pitch lean-to to at the east end. The south façade has a two storey range with a gable towards its south end and a protruding two storey at its north end. The north façade has a two storey façade at its east end with a gable near the centre and a single storey range to its west end. The west façade faces the ponds to the west and surrounds a court, it has a single storey range at its north end, a set back two storey range, and the tall single storey range gable at its south end. The roof has handmade red clay tiles. The listing notes the modern casement windows.
The former farm outbuildings are laid out in the form of two ranges of outbuildings with a central access external corridor or court, which are set parallel with the roof ridge of the main house’s east range ridge. The buildings which exist today have north gables roughly in line, are both long north to south and are single storey. Both ranges have relatively low dual pitch roofs covered with red corrugated or roman roof tiles. The east range extends is narrower and is built into the slope, where as the west range is wider. The earlier parts of the structures, the bricks are handmade soft red clay which have lime mortar beds (although repointed in places with cement mortar) which would not date earlier than the 19th century (S5)