THE OLD GUILDHALL

THE OLD GUILDHALL, LOW ROAD, KELSALE, IP17 2NU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1030641
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: THE OLD GUILDHALL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD GUILDHALL, LOW ROAD, KELSALE, IP17 2NU

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Date:: 2003-05-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1030641
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: THE OLD GUILDHALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD GUILDHALL, LOW ROAD, KELSALE, IP17 2NU

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD GUILDHALL, LOW ROAD, KELSALE, IP17 2NU

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Kelsale cum Carlton
National Grid Reference:: TM3872364930

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/07/2015

TM 36 SE 7/71

KELSALE-CUM-CARLTON Kelsale LOW ROAD The Old Guildhall (Formerly listed as Teacher's Centre, THE STREET, previously listed as Primary School)

25.10.51

GV II Former guildhall. Probably late C15 with C16 wing to rear; considerable later alterations, especially in later C19; the date 1725 on the right hand side refers to the brick casing at this end of the building. Timber framed and plastered, red brick casing to right hand gable; plaintiled roof, pantiles to rear wing. 2 storeys; the facade and left hand gable have a jettied first floor with bracketed corner post. C20 casement windows with square leaded panes, an almost continuous range of 6 to the first floor; 2 C20 boarded doors with cover fillets, one with rectangular fanlight. 3 stacks with late C19 shafts of fluted brickwork with moulded bases and oversailing caps; one of the stacks is set flush with the facade, with the lower portions of 2 former stacks to either side. The main feature of the building is the fine 5-bay crown post roof: cambered and arch-braced tie beams, 4 crown posts of square. section with moulded bases and heads; the remainder of the interior is much altered. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Vol.30, pp.129-148.

Listing NGR: TM3872364930

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Legacy System number:: 285666
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History' in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, , Vol. 30, (), 129-148

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.