Street Farm
Street Farm, a Grade II* listed building, is the finest "Wealden"type
house in Suffolk. Having been called Street Farm for centuries, the building has
in recent years had several name changes which include "Carpenters
Farm", "Brown's Farm", "Paradise Farm" and "Hemroyd
House" before reverting back to its former name "Street Farm".
The House was built around 1490 as a 3 cell Wealden type house of unusually
high quality which suggests it was built for some special function. The house
initially had an open two storey main hall with richly carved and moulded oak
beams. Around 1530 or 1540 the open hall was subdivided by the construction of a
ceiling in the hall.
The house was formerly surrounded by extensive farmland and farm outbuildings
which have in recent history been developed into individual domestic residences.
The first photo (date unknown) is one of the earliest recorded pictures of the building when it was still
thatched and was occupied as a working farmhouse.
The recent photo (2000)
shows the signs of extensive renovation over the years but the building and
grounds down to the river Lark still retain all the key unspoilt features of the
original building.
Copyright 2000: R. Lewis, O. Jennings.