Description

BRUNDISH THE STREET
TM 27 SE

4/10 St Edmund's Farmhouse
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-- II

Manor farmhouse. Late C14 with C18-C19 cross-wing to left. Extensively
modernised mid C20. Timber framed and plastered with a roof of mainly glazed
black pantiles. 2 storeys. Various mid C20 casement windows; mid C20 boarded
entrance door. A section of the front wall has been raised above eaves level.
Internal and gable stacks, both with small shafts of mid C20 date. The main
range contains a 2-bay former open hall with a roof of raised-aisle form. The
open truss has an arch-braced cambered tie beam supporting square or cruciform
queen-posts, part now cut through and removed; on the upper tie beam is a
cruciform crown-post with broach stops and 2-bay solid arched bracing to the
collar purlin. The rafters over the hall and one gable wall are intact; all
of the roof components are heavily sooted. Remainder of house greatly
modernised: a little studding in the upper walls and one bay of a C16 inserted
ceiling. Former moated site.

Listing NGR: TM2608270665

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635239

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)