Bacton Manor

Bacton Manor, Bacton, Suffolk, IP14 4LJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1032752
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: Bacton Manor
Statutory Address:: Bacton Manor, Bacton, Suffolk, IP14 4LJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1032752
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: Bacton Manor
Statutory Address 1:: Bacton Manor, Bacton, Suffolk, IP14 4LJ

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:: Bacton Manor, Bacton, Suffolk, IP14 4LJ

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bacton
National Grid Reference:: TM 04990 67153

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 February 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

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BACTON CHURCH ROAD Bacton Manor

(Formerly listed as Manor House Christian Rest Home, previously listed as Manorhouse Farmhouse)

29.7.55

II*

Former Old peoples home, previously a manor house. Circa 1720-1730, for George Pretyman (died 1732). Red brick with burnt headers; a band at first storey incorporating moulded keys above the centre of each window. Plain tiled roofs with hipped slightly set-forward end bays. C19 internal chimneys of red brick and gabled C19 dormers with sashes. Eaves cornice with wooden modillions. A central brick pediment with dentils rising into the apex; in the tympanum is a coat of arms added in 1738 when a Pretyman married Arabella Shelton, whose arms are quartered on the shield, with Pretyman, Garneys and Pistor. The shield is surrounded by a cartouche and a garland of fruit and flowers. Two storeys and attics. A pair of wings two-windows wide, are minimally set forward flanking a five-window main range. Tall, narrow windows with flat arches of finely-gauged brick and painted keystones; original flush frames with mid C19 eight-light sashes. Eight-panel fielded door, architrave surround, fluted Doric pilasters, console brackets, with cornice broken above, and a segmental pedestal.

Fine original internal features: a large panelled staircase hall, with concave twisted balusters to the stairs. Several fully panelled rooms, with four overmantel paintings all by T Bardwell in c1720-1730. One is of this house and includes lower pavilions on each side (demolished in C19), garden walling and gate-ways, all removed. Another painting is of Furness Abbey, another a scene from Don Quixote and another of Susannah and the Elders. There are also original pictorial tapestries. Rear ranges of late C19 and late C20.

Listing NGR: TM0499067153

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Legacy System number:: 280487
Legacy System:: LBS

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