Bacton Manor
Bacton Manor, Bacton, Suffolk, IP14 4LJ
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
TM 06 NW
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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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280487
- 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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