Description

ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET
TM 38 NW
1/30 Hill Farm Old House
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- II
Former farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys: 3-cell lobby-entrance form. Timber-
framed and rendered, with thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a
plain rendered shaft, and a C19 end stack on the south, set externally. 2 2-
light old casement windows to first floor, and 2 similar 3-light casements to
the ground floor, all with pintle hinges. An early C19 enclosed and gabled
brick porch, colour-washed, with black-glazed pantiled roof: square hoodmoulds
in Tudor style to doorway and side windows; plank door with applied pilaster
strips. A small brick lean-to along the south side and part of the front.
Frame in 4 bays, without a chimney-bay; the upper tie-beams have been cut or
removed, and there is some reused timber; various blocked original mullioned
windows. On the ground floor 2 ceilings are exposed: chamfered main beams and
unchamfered joists, set flat. Roof with clasped purlins and windbraces.
There is no evidence that the house had an open hall, but the internal
chimney-stack may well be a later insertion. The kitchen has a cast iron oven
door, and a fine range by Richmond of Bungay, set in a fireplace surround of
c.1840.

Listing NGR: TM3442386691

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492502

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)