The Guildhall
THE GUILDHALL, 34, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030333
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, 34, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030333
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL, 34, MARKET HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, 34, MARKET HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Framlingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2848363460
Details
In the entry for:
TM 26 SE FRAMLINGHAM MARKET HILL
4/110 No. 34 (The Mansion House)
25.10.51
GV II*
The address shall be amended to read: MARKET HILL
No. 34 (The Guildhall)
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TM 26 SE FRAMLINGHAM MARKET HILL
4/110 No.34 (The Mansion House)
25.10.51
GV II*
House, now offices and shop premises. Late C16 core; built on the site of the
hall of the Guild of St. Mary by Simon Pulham, who acquired the site with the
old building on it in 1564. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed; faced in
red mathematical tiles; plaintiled roof. 9 bays: 3:3:3, with the centre
breaking forward slightly. Parapet, with sections of turned balusters in
front of the dormer windows and the central break, and a plastered band below.
3 dormers with small-paned sash windows and moulded pediments, the 2 outer
triangular, the central segmental. 7 large-paned sash windows in flush frames
to the first floor with gauged brick heads and keystones. To each side of the
central break a blank window with ornate surround: enriched eared architrave
and open triangular pediment. On the ground floor, the sash windows have been
replaced along the western 2/3rd of the front by 2 mid-C19 shop entrances and
3 large canted shop windows which project from the face of the building. The
eastern 1/3rd of the front (separately occupied by Messrs Turner & Ellerby),
has an entrance door up steps, and brickwork refacing to the ground floor.
This is the only accessible part of the building, the remainder being
unoccupied. It contains a small room on the ground floor, with raised fielded
panelling. A dog-leg stair has a plain handrail and metal twist balusters.
On the first floor, a fine panelled room in the rear wing with double
bolection-moulded panels and window-shutters. In the bottom of the shutters
are 2 secret drawers. The roof over the rear range has side purlins; the
remainder plastered. In the panelled ground-floor room and the room above it
are semi-domed and semi-circular recessed cupboards set into the walls, one
made to revolve, and both with painted decoration and figures.
Listing NGR: TM2848363460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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