Lawshall Hall

LAWSHALL HALL, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1036593
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
Lawshall Hall
Statutory Address:
LAWSHALL HALL, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1036593
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
Lawshall Hall
Statutory Address 1:
LAWSHALL HALL, THE STREET

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
LAWSHALL HALL, THE STREET

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Lawshall
National Grid Reference:
TL 86333 54290

Details

THE STREET 1. 5377 (North Side) Lawshall Lawshall Hall TL 85 SE 4/303 10.1.53. II*

2. A mid C16 red brick house with some blue brick diapering, built on a T shaped plan, with the older wing extending north-west. The house is said to have been part of an old monastery and has massive brick walls said to be 6 ft thick in places. The north-west end of the front wing there is part of the original wall (the gable is modern), with 2 small stone framed windows and a Tudor arched doorway with a square hood mould. The house is a great deal altered and was refronted on the south-west front in the C19 with 3 window range of double-hung sashes. The north-east wing has some original 3-light mullioned and transomed windows (brick), partly blocked. Roof tiled. (C20). The house is dated 1557 with the arms of the Drury's. Queen Elizabeth I is said to have stayed here in 1578.

Listing NGR: TL8633354290

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Legacy System number:
278093
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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