Mud Hall

MUD HALL, STEARNS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1033191
Date first listed:
26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Mud Hall
Statutory Address:
MUD HALL, STEARNS LANE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1033191
Date first listed:
26-Mar-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
05-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
Mud Hall
Statutory Address 1:
MUD HALL, STEARNS LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
MUD HALL, STEARNS LANE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Earl Stonham
National Grid Reference:
TM 09671 59142

Details

In the entry for:-

EARL STONHAM STEARNS LANE TM 05 NE 4/121 Valley House - II

the address shall be amended to read:

TM 05 NE EARL STONHAM STEARNS LANE 4/121 Mud Hall - II

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EARL STONHAM STEARNS LANE TM 05 NE 4/121 Valley House - - II

House, mid C16 and mid C17 in two sections. 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan (the third, parlour cell being added in C17). 1 storey and attics, the parlour cell of 2 storeys with attics. Timber-framed and roughcast. Concrete-tiled roof with axial chimney of red brick, the shaft mainly roughcast. Mainly C20 casements. C20 panelled entrance door in lean-to porch. The C16 work comprises a 2-bay hall and service cell; the chamber above them is undivided, apart from an arch-braced tie-beam. Widely spaced studwork with long arched wind-braces and several original blocked windows with square mullions. Large unchamfered floor joists over the hall (those in the service cell were renewed in C20). The C17 parlour block has on-edge floor joists, and a chimney having a lintelled open fireplace to the hall and arched brick fireplaces to the parlour and chamber above, the latter being ovolo-moulded. C17 newel staircase. The roofs were rebuilt mid C20 after a fire. Included despite C20 alterations because of good and early internal features.

Listing NGR: TM0967159142

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
279370
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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