Listed Building: HICKS FARMHOUSE (279337)

EARL STONHAM BROAD GREEN TM 05 NE 4/88 Hicks Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse, mainly late C17, but with possible earlier core. Lobby- entrance plan. 2 storeys, partly with attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Pantiled roof (formerly thatched) with axial chimney of red brick. Mainly mid C20 casements, and flush entrance door with fully-glazed porch. Much framing exposed; major reuse of mediaeval components, probably from a C14 open hall house, the wall plates having a splayed scarf joint of that date. The clasped purlin roof is built mainly of smoke-encrusted mediaeval rafters. The house has 4 cells, and may have been built in 2 stages, the left hand section being the earlier. Listing NGR: TM0897858926