Description

TL 32 NW WALKERN BASSUS GREEN
(south side)

2/12 No 1
(Bassus Green Farmhouse)
- (SW of junction)

GV II

House. C16. Timber frame, roughcast with steep old red tile
roofs, half hipped W end of kitchen wing. A 2-storeys, 3-cell
house facing S with a single-storey kitchen in line to W and a
long-storey dairy wing projecting N from the kitchen. House has
4 structural bays, the end bays partitioned with parlour at E and
service rooms at W. Formerly separate 2-bay outside kitchen at W
still open to roof, with stair to chamber over the dairy on N.
Lower bay of hall has chimney backing onto staircase and cross-
passage. Inserted internal gable chimney at E for parlour.
Central chimney inserted in kitchen. Interior has exposed close-
studding and curved tension-bracing in house and dairy wing.
Jowled posts with clasped-purlin roofs, in house with wind-braces
and edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts in N wallplate.
Kitchen has jowled posts, angle-ties, close-studding, and
cambered tie-beams, with E corner posts about 0.5m from house.

Listing NGR: TL3034525735

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594852

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Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)