Listed Building: THOMPSONS FARMHOUSE (279631)

CROWFIELD STONE STREET TM 15 NE 4/12 Thompsons Farmhouse II Former farmhouse, c.1570. 1 storey and attics. 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan. Timber-framed and plastered with late C20 cable-pattern pargetting in panels. Hipped thatched roof with an original axial chimney of buff/pink brick. C19 and C20 small pane casements. Glazed C20 entrance door in open porch. An unusual sub-mediaeval house. Twin service rooms (now united). Cross-passage with massive brick chimney backing onto it. The single-bay hall has a recess apparently for a bench at the "upper" partition. Loft above hall and parlour is only sub-divided by an open truss. Late type of crownpost roof with square posts totally unbraced. Evidence for shuttered diamond-mullioned windows. Wide lintelled hall fireplace has an integral smoke-curing chamber at 1st storey level, with stout built-in hanging poles. Access was only from within the chimney (c.p. A smoke-curing chamber at Brockley: Proc. Suffolk Inst. Arch.: John McCann, 1982) Listing NGR: TM1507157217