Farmstead record FML 094 - Farmstead: New Street Farm

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Summary

New Street Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed OS map. The farmstead is laid out in a regular courtyard U-plan with parallel elements. The farmhouse is detached and set away from the yard. The farmstead is set alongside a private track in an isolated location. There has been a partial loss of working buildings with modern sheds to the side.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 2663 6383 (98m by 61m)
Map sheet TM26SE
Civil Parish FRAMLINGHAM, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

New Street Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed OS map. The farmstead is laid out in a regular courtyard U-plan with parallel elements. The farmhouse is detached and set away from the yard. The farmstead is set alongside a private track in an isolated location. There has been a partial loss of working buildings with modern sheds to the side.

2009: New Street Farm lies on high ground at the western edge of Framlingham approximately 2km from the town centre. The farmhouse is a grade II-listed 16th century structure which is believed to have been the home of a major figure in the settlement of New England. A number of former agricultural buildings in the farm yard 50m west of the house have already been converted for domestic purposes. The redundant barn is a traditional timber-framed and weatherboarded threshing barn of five bays with a hipped central porch which dates from c.1800 and incorporates both arch-braces and bolted knee-braces in the usual manner of that period. Many individual timbers show evidence of re-use from earlier structures, but it is shown in its present form on the Framlingham tithe map of 1842 along with a pair of lean-to sheds built as later extensions. With the exception of its southern gable the timber frame remains largely intact, including all four arch-braces and a steeply pitched clasped-purlin roof. A section of weatherboarding within one of the learn-to sheds preserves the original red-ochre pigment with which many East Anglian farm buildings were decorated before the advent of tar in the late 19th century. The barn is of considerable historic interest at a local level, reflecting the ‘great rebuilding’ of East Anglian barns in response to the high grain prices of the Napoleonic wars, and is a conspicuous feature in the landscape (S1).

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.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Unpublished document: Campbell, G., and McSorley, G. 2019. SCCAS: Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project.
  • --- Vertical Aerial Photograph: various. Google Earth / Bing Maps.
  • --- Map: Ordnance Survey. 1880s. Ordnance Survey 25 inch to 1 mile map, 1st edition.
  • <S1> Unpublished document: Alston, L.. 2009. Historical Assessment: Barn at New Street Farm, Framlingham, Suffolk.

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Aug 14 2019 1:49PM

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