Description

GREAT FINBOROUGH BOROUGH LANE
TM 05 NW

2/111 Butterfly Farmhouse

II*

Former farmhouse, circa 1570 with alterations of c.1620. Original house of 3-
cell cross-entry form; a 2-cell cross-wing added to north end c.1620. 2
storeys. Timber-framed and plastered; the textured daub-plaster has been
maintained in the traditional manner. The cross-wing has ovolo-moulded
oversailing gable tiebeams. Plaintiled roofs; an axial C17 chimney of buff
brick, the shaft rebuilt with original bricks in c.1970; another axial C17
chimney in the crosswing with a sawtooth shaft of red brick. Windows of many
periods: several C16 diamond-mullioned windows at 1st storey, now glazed. A
large ovolo-mullioned and transomed early C17 staircase window; a similar
chamber window of oriel form with moulded cill. Mid C19 windows with iron
small-pane casements; some C20 casements. Boarded C19 entrance door. Some
original or c.1600 pargetting now on an internal wall: highly textured large
panels with sunk strapwork designs; of interest because an unusually early
example of pargetting. A good dogleg staircase of c.1620 was placed in the
earlier service cell. A large fragment of C17 painted wall decoration in the
form of vertical strips in one chamber. Several C17 arched fireplaces. The
C17 cross-wing comprises a kitchen and parlour, both with good open
fireplaces, the former is constructed of very heavy framing, including
unchamfered floorjoists and fireplace lintel, reused from an early C16
structure. Wind-braced clasped-purlin roofs. Suffolk Houses: Eric Sandon,
1977.

Listing NGR: TM0036456361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536276

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)