Witnesham Hall
WITNESHAM HALL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030518
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Witnesham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WITNESHAM HALL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030518
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Witnesham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WITNESHAM HALL, CHURCH LANE
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:
- WITNESHAM HALL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witnesham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17714 50820
Details
TM 15 SE WITNESHAM CHURCH LANE
1/38 Witnesham Hall 16.3.66
GV II*
Former manor house, occupied as 2 dwellings. Mid C16 with alterations probably c.1614 for William Meadowe; extended later C17, and remodelled c.1842 for D.C. Meadows. Originally of 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed, encased in red brick c.1842 (much rear walling retains earlier plasterwork). String course at 1st floor level and another below ground floor windows. Pilaster-buttresses at corners with ball- finials. Embattled parapets incorporating dormers with Flemish gables. Plaintiled roofs with groups of 2 and 3 octagonal chimneys on moulded bases; mainly internal and of 1842, but a complete C17 stack is at the left hand gable. Hood-moulded windows with splayed reveals and wood-mullioned and transomed casements; a 2-storey splayed bay of similar design. Fine 3-storey entrance porch of c.1614, in red brick, at cross-passage entrance of earlier house; doorway with imposts and semi-circular head. In the pediment above is a limestone shield with the vulning pelicans of the Meadowe family. 3 tiers of brick pilasters capped by ball finials. 3-light mullioned window with pediment above, and another at attic level. Flemish gable bearing a C19 weathervane. Inner doorway with original plank door and C18 fanlight. In the cross-passage is a mid C16 plank and muntin screen. In the parlour is an arched plastered fireplace with fine carved surround and overmantel. The staircase wing, added c.1600, has balustrading with carved splat-balusters; original ovolo-moulded mullioned windows with leaded glazing. In a later C17 rear wing is another fine carved fireplace surround. Said to be the birthplace in 1759 of William Kirby, entomologist.
Listing NGR: TM1771450820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286000
- 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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