Culford Hall

CULFORD HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1031236
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:
Culford Hall
Statutory Address:
CULFORD HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1031236
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:
Culford Hall
Statutory Address 1:
CULFORD 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CULFORD HALL

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Culford
National Grid Reference:
TL 83187 70388

Details

TL 87 SW CULFORD CULFORD PARK

1/15 Culford Hall 14.7.55 - II*

Mansion, now used as a co-educational public school. The original hall, built by Sir Nathaniel Bacon in the late C16, was rebuilt for the first Marquess Cornwallis circa. 1800, the design attributed to James Wyatt: greatly enlarged by William Young for Earl Cadogan c.1890 in an Italian style. The 7-bay 2 1/2 storey brick house of Marquess Cornwallis forms the core of the present building, but is completely overlaid externally by the Cadogan extensions, in white brick with stone ornaments and details. 3 storeys, irregular form. The main front is topped by a stone balustrade with urns above. Asymmetrical tower with a square copper-roofed cupola. Range of small-paned sash windows in deep reveals with eared architraves. Large single-storey flat-roofed porch, with a long portico extension supported on fluted Ionic columns. A large wing at the west end bears the Cadogan arms and date 1894. On the east, a 2-storey range of about the same date. The principal rooms in the Cadogan extensions are lavishly decorated in an ornate Italian Baroque style, with carved woodwork and ornate gilded plaster ceilings. Of the same date is a fine stone open newel staircase, with cast iron balustrades, fitted into the older part of the house. The Cornwallis interiors are in a restrained Greek Revival style. The rear hall is paved with limestone squares, and the floor of the entrance hall has limestone squares with black dots. The grounds were laid out by Humphry Repton.

Listing NGR: TL8318770388

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Legacy System number:
284211
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 39 Suffolk,

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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