Alston, L. (2018). Farm Buildings at Pear Tree Farm, Laxfield Road, Fressingfield. SACIC. https://doi.org/10.5284/1103924. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Farm Buildings at Pear Tree Farm, Laxfield Road, Fressingfield
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Series:		 Suffolk Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Historic Building Recording of a complex of redundant farm buildings in the curtilage of a grade II listed farmhouse at Fressingfield. Pear tree Farm consists of a grade II-listed house of late 16th century and early 17th centuries built on the edge of a medieval moat and a large complex of chiefly mid-19th century pantiled farm buildings. The latter has unusually altered little since depicted on the Ordnance Survey of 1884. Despite minor alterations the red brick coash house is a particularly good example of its kind, with arched doors, decorative cast iron ventilation grills and a well preserved chaff box with two hatches. It appears to adjoin a missing arm of the moat as shown in 1838. The chief significance of the site is the laregly intact timber-framed four bay threshing barn of circa 1600, which originally possessed a stable and hay loft at one end. Of special importance is the contemporary or near contemporary gabled porch which projects from the back wall immediately opposite the original entrance. This structure is open-framed against the barn and initially opposite the original entrance. This structure is open-framed against the barn and initially contained a loft with pegged window mullions lighting both the upper and lower storeys. The high quality framing is entirely coherent and does not consist od reused timber as previously suggested, nor is it likely to have beeen imported as it fits the narrow entrance bay perfectly. The building was almost certainly designed as a granary immediately behind the threshing floor, and its location is consistent with the grain stores often found alongside rear porches in the 18th and 19th centuries. As such it represents a unique late-16th or early 17th century survival with no known direct parallel
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Author:		 L Alston
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Publisher:		 SACIC
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Year of Publication:		 2018
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District: Mid Suffolk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Parish: Fressingfield
Grid Reference: 627869, 274813 (Easting, Northing)
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BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
BUILDING (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL BUILDING (Tag)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: suffolka1-327643
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Created Date:		 10 Mar 2023