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The house was built as a rather narrow house in about 1820, but was
extended to the north in the early 20th century. The first house had a
north outshut, of which patches of flint remain at the north-east
corner, but this was absorbed in the extension. The main facade
is to the south, facing the road. Two stories in three bays. Whole
coursed flints with red brick dressings under a gabled thatched roof.
A Utility Outbuilding, and Cartshed were built in the early 20th
century.
On the site is also a Three-stead barn, dated 1742, constructed of
red brick laid in Flemish bond on a brick and flint plinth, with a
hipped thatched roof. The west side has a pair of central double doors
flanked by a thin pilaster strip right and left. To the extreme right
is a low pedestrian doorway. The rear (east) elevation has a
full-length outshut right and left of the transept entrance. The north
gable has a datestone: M over T & C, and the date 1742.
A further small three-stead barn was built in the early 19th
century, now on the brink of sliding into decay. Constructed of red
brick laid in Flemish bond, under a gabled, thatched roof. To the east
is the gable-end of a mid 18th century barn formerly on the site.
A set of farm stables, now redundant. Built in the late 19th
century, they abut the east side of the garden wall to the farmhouse.
Red brick laid in Flemish bond, under a lean-to pantiled roof, they
were formerly three loose boxes, each with a stable door, but the
south box has been bricked up in the mid 20th century, leaving two
doors.
In addition to these buildings there is a set of outbuildings
immediately east of Street farmhouse, and abutting to the north of the
former stables. Constructed in the late 19th century of whole flints
with red brick dressings and a gabled thatched roof. Of one storey,
and indeterminate function, they are now partly ruinous. There is a
small enclosed brick building with a window to the north and a door to
the south. South-east of this and built against the former stockyard
wall, is one bay of a former barn
The house enlarged to North, by Tooley & Youngs when
STARLINGs lived there.
Families Who Lived at Street Farm.
1865 - 1900 John BECKETT - farmer
1904 George ENGLISH took part of Street
Farm, possibly just the land.
1904 - 1908 Richard ANDREWS and George
ENGLISH at Street Farm
1915 George ENGLISH farmer at Street farm,
and landowner at Horsey Corner
1920's ENGLISH family still at Street farm,
until...
1926 Frank Oliver STARLING Snr. took over
the farm
1938 STARLINGs still at farm at time of
Flood
1947 Mr and Mrs G. YOUNGS take over the
farm
1991 The YOUNGS retire from farming, but
continue to live at farm
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