Wiston Hall
WISTON HALL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033615
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wiston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WISTON HALL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033615
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wiston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISTON HALL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON
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:
- WISTON HALL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nayland-with-Wissington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 95503 33206
Details
In the entry for Nayland with Wissington
15/598 Wiston Hall, Wiston
The descriptive notes should be amended to read
2. 1791 by Sir John Soane for Samuel Beechcroft, a director of the Bank of England. An enlargement of a very small house. No elevations survive in the Soane Museum but there is a plan and some accounts. The house was enlarged again in the 1860s. Red brick house. Two storeys, attics and cellars. Three window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground storey windows extend down to floor level, with stuccoed reveals. A central modern glazed door has a stucco doorcase with pilaster and cornice. Roof tiled, with a dentilled eave course and ornamental crest files. A wing extends at rear (1860s extension). Small tablet with initials SB and the date 1791 Get high up in the east wall of house.
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Nayland with Wissington 1. 5377 Wiston Hall, Wiston TL 93 SE 15/598 II
2. A C19 red brick house possibly incorporating remains of a house built by Sir John Soane in 1791 for Samuel Beechcroft, a director of the Bank of England. 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground storey windows extend down to floor level, with stuccoed reveals. A central modern glazed door has a stucco doorcase with pilasters and cornice. Roof tiled, with a dentilled eaves course and ornamental crest tiles. A wing extends at the rear.
Listing NGR: TL9550333206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278350
- 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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