Meeting Hall Stables, Bentley Hall, Approximately 30 Metres South of Bentley Hall
MEETING HALL, BENTLEY HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033423
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Meeting Hall Stables, Bentley Hall, Approximately 30 Metres South of Bentley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MEETING HALL, BENTLEY HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033423
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Meeting Hall Stables, Bentley Hall, Approximately 30 Metres South of Bentley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEETING HALL, BENTLEY HALL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- STABLES, BENTLEY HALL, APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH OF BENTLEY HALL, BENTLEY HALL ROAD
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:
- MEETING HALL, BENTLEY HALL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES, BENTLEY HALL, APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH OF BENTLEY HALL, BENTLEY HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bentley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 11877 38372
Details
TM 13 NW BENTLEY BENTLEY HALL ROAD 4/2 Meeting Hall, formerly 22.2.55 listed as Stables, Bentley Hall, approx 30 metres south of Bentley Hall
GV II*
Probable former court house. Now used as a meeting hall, recently used as stables. C15/C16, with later alterations and C20 restorations. Timber framed, red brick herring bone nogging infill to first floor, the ground floor and one bay of rear wall red brick. Red plain tiled roof, hipped at ends with gablets. Long wall jetty to front (north). 2 storeys. Pilasters with capitals support the 8 jetty brackets. Arched braces to first floor walls. 4 first floor, 3 ground floor mullion windows. Off centre right doorway, 4-centred arch, square head, foliate carved spandrels, nailed board door. Far right square headed doorway, nailed board door. Return walls each with a mullion window to first and ground floors. Rear wall, 3 mullion windows to ground and first floors. Interior, of 5 bays, the central bays open to the roof, end bays floored and approached by C20 stairs and gallery. Arched braces to tie beams, renewed crown posts to roof. Halved and bridled top plate scarf. There is an early brick paved forecourt with a gutter below the eaves of the court house to front of the building. E Sandon, Suffolk Houses, 1977.
Listing NGR: TM1187738372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sandon, E, Suffolk Houses: A Study of Domestic Architecture, (1977)
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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