Abbey Hall
Abbey Hall, Buxhall Road, Great Finborough, Stowmarket, IP14 3AU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033027
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Abbey Hall, Buxhall Road, Great Finborough, Stowmarket, IP14 3AU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033027
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Abbey Hall, Buxhall Road, Great Finborough, Stowmarket, IP14 3AU
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:
- Abbey Hall, Buxhall Road, Great Finborough, Stowmarket, IP14 3AU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Finborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01114 57438
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 January 2024 to update the name and to reformat the text to current standards
TM 05 NW
2/27
BUXHALL
GT. FINBOROUGH
BUXHALL ROAD
Abbey Hall
(formerly listed as Abbey Hall Farmhouse, previously listed as Abbey House)
9.12.55
II
Former farmhouse. Early C18, the rear range possibly earlier. Timber-framed and plastered, the gable walls of the main range in red brick with random burnt headers. Parapet gables with internal end chimneys each having a pair of diagonally-set square flues. Plaintiled roofs; three good early C18 lead-roofed gabled dormers with moulded wooden pediments and cornices; casements with leaded lights. Two storeys and attics. Five windows. Small-pane sashes of late C18/early C19. Early C18 doorway with Gibbs surround and moulded pediment, a pair of three-panelled doors, renewed in C20. A 1½ storey rear wing: timber-framed and plastered with a coved eaves cornice. Concrete plaintiled roof with two C19 axial chimneys of red brick, one having triple diagonally-set square shafts and a sawtooth base. Three C19 gabled dormers, one having a small-pane sash, the others small-pane casements. C18 cross-casements, one remodelled in C19. A C19 six-panelled entrance door, the upper panels glazed. A further single-storey service wing at rear is of C18 or earlier.
Interior not examined.
Listing NGR: TM0111457438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279802
- 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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