Farmstead record MDS 244 - Farmstead: Boundary Farm

Boundary Farm, Mendlesham. 19th century farmstead and 16th century farmhouse. Loose courtyard two sided plan formed by working agricultural buildings. Farmhouse is set away from the yard. Only the farmhouse survives. Located within an isolated position (S1-6).

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.

The dairy is a single storey L shaped building with a walled yard in the south east corner, partly formed by the buildings. To the southern side of the yard is an attached rectangular
building which leads into the southern end of the dairy. The north range of the L shape is formed by a range of former cattle sheds. It is a clay lump building under a clay pantiled roof. The west range is the former dairy building. It is timber framed and weatherboarded to the yard side and mostly masonry (brick and flint) to the western side. To the west of the dairy range is the remains of a further outbuilding, attached by a brick wall to the south west corner (S7)