Nowton Hall
NOWTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031160
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Nowton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- NOWTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031160
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Nowton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOWTON HALL
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:
- NOWTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nowton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86101 60464
Details
In the entry for the following:-
TL 86 SE NOWTON
Nowton Hall 4/22 - 14.7.55
GV II
The grade shall be amended to read II * (star)
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TL 86 SE NOWTON
4/22 Nowton Hall - 14.7.55 II
Former farmhouse. Dated 1595 on chimney-stack, with the initials A.P. for Anthony Payne (d.1606): an earlier C16 fragment remains, and there are additions of the C18 and C19. 2 storeys and attics: 3-cell form to main range. Timber-framed; jettied along the main front: ground storey faced in colourwashed brick, upper storey rendered. C20 plaintiles. An internal chimney-stack has 4 octagonal shafts with attached heads and moulded bases; on the square base below is a large plaster panel with an unusual raised fishscale decoration surmounted by the date and initials. Another internal stack, further west, has a plain red brick shaft. Small-paned sash windows and 2 canted bays to the ground storey; tripartite small-paned sash windows to the upper storey. An off-centre early C20 half-glazed door set into a late C18 surround with eared architrave and rectangular traceried fanlight. Much of the framing is exposed inside. At the west end of the main range are the remains of an early C16 cross-wing, now re-roofed in line with the rest of the range, with a later chimney-stack on its east side. This part has tension bracing to one end wall, and on the west side a further half-bay which may be the truncated section of an earlier hall range. The remainder of the main range relates to the date of 1595 on the chimney-stack: 5 bays, including a chimney-bay, with an original stair-wing behind it which contains an apparently resited stair with a plain handrail to the first floor; the upper flight leading to the attics may be a later date. A large open fireplace with timber lintel to the east of the main stack. Good close-studding with a middle rail to the whole range; ovolo-moulded main beams to ground and first floor ceilings, and a number of ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, now blocked, but with mullions in situ. The roof has clasped purlins, large principal rafters and the remnants of windbraces, but the attics, which are original, are mainly plastered. The house stands on the remains of a roughly E-shaped moated site. Prior to the Dissolution, the manor belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Edmundsbury.
Listing NGR: TL8610160464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284443
- 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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