Farmstead record BNG 016 - Farmstead: REEVES HALL (Green Farm)

Green Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed Os map. The farmstead is laid out in a regular full plan with additional detached elements. The farmhouse is attached to the agricultural range. The farmstead sits alongside a private track in an isolated location. There has been a partial loss of working buildings with the remaining in use as a residential school. (S1-4)

Former farmhouse, now a residential school. Mid C16 and C17. 2 storeys: 3- cell main range in 5 bays, jettied along front, formerly with a cross-entry, now with a lobby-entrance; 2-cell secondary range on north-east, with internal chimney-stack. Timber-framed and rendered, with black glazed pantiled roofs. The internal chimney-stack of the main range has a rebuilt shaft in Jacobean style with recessed panels. The jetty is supported by small solid brackets. Small-paned casement windows to both ranges. 6-panel door, with raised fielded panels. The interior has good framing exposed: the 2-bay central room has very heavy main cross-beams with a 3" chamfer and triangle stops, and a plain cambered fireplace lintel. A blocked original doorway in the front wall indicates the former cross-entry, and a single post in the end wall has housing for the 2 service doorways. On the other side of the stack, the parlour has a boxed-in beam, and a fireplace with a 4-centred brick arch: a similar, but smaller, fireplace is in the principal bedroom. On upper floor, one original window with diamond mullions in situ, and evidence for others. Trusses with cambered tie-beams and cranked braces. Roof, originally hipped, but later gabled, with plain square crown-posts braced to the collor purlins only. The later extension has some reused timbers; main beam with ovolo- moulding; roof with clasped purlins. This was one of the 2 manor houses of Hepworth. (S6)

Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.