Kenton Hall
KENTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032300
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Kenton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- KENTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032300
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Kenton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENTON 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:
- KENTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1870965122
Details
TM 16 NE
1/130
29.7.55
KENTON
Kenton Hall
II
Manor house. Late C16, altered after being gutted by a fire in 1919. East
wing of c.1920, replacing C16 or earlier work. Long west wing with short
return to north. Red brick, laid in English bond. Octagonal corner
buttresses. First floor moulded brick string course; C20 coved eaves cornice,
the walls no longer full height. C20 hipped plaintiled roof. 2 storeys and
attic. Main facade to west. 8 bays, arranged 4:2:2, divided by octagonal
buttresses. 2 and 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and mullion and transom
windows of stuccoed brick, with restored quoined stucco surrounds and moulded
pediments over ground floor windows. Ground floor window openings in bays 1
and 2 are blocked; ground floor windows in bays 7 and 8 replaced by a single
central window. Between bays 6 and 7 are 2 small blocked openings, the upper
one with a hoodmould. 2 C20 hipped dormers. 2 C20 chimney stacks. One-bay
gable ends, with intact windows to south. North gable end has a C20 timber
ground floor window, the upper window blocked; original stucco quoining to
both openings. North wing is fragmentary, partly rebuilt C20. Interior.
Gutted by the fire. Early C20 wing has C16 fully-moulded cross-beams and
plain joists, all probably salvaged from an older wing which was entirely
destroyed in the fire. Moated site.
Listing NGR: TM1870965122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281554
- 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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