NOS 1 AND 2 BOURN HALL

NOS 1 AND 2 BOURN HALL, BOURN HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036935
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 BOURN HALL
Statutory Address:: NOS 1 AND 2 BOURN HALL, BOURN HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036935
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 BOURN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 1 AND 2 BOURN HALL, BOURN HILL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NOS 1 AND 2 BOURN HALL, BOURN HILL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Wherstead
National Grid Reference:: TM1611941554

Details

TM 14 SE WHERSTEAD BOURN HILL (east side) 2/20 Nos 1 and 2 Bourn Hall 22-2-55 - II House, now 2 dwellings. Early C16 cross wing to right (No 1) with C17 and later alterations, C17 cross wing to left (No 2), centre range rebuilt C18 - C19. Timber- framed cross wings, rendered, that to left partly underbuilt in brick. Centre range red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roofs, French tiles to rear. 2 storeys, cellar and attic. U-shaped plan with wings of 4-bays. Through passage adjacent to right cross wing. Centre range: C19 door to right in architrave under flat gauged brick arch. Small casement under soldier arch to centre and tripartite sash with glazing bars under flat gauged brick arch to left. To 1st floor, 3 C20 cross casements. To rear large external stack and gabled staircase extension to left. Right cross wing: tripartite sash with glazing bars in architrave with 16-pane sash in architrave above. Bargeboards to gable. Ridge stack. To right return a four-light window with cavetto and ovolo mullions. Left cross wing external stack to front gable end, entrance to left return. Interior: No 1, front room has C17 cross beam plaster ceiling with paterae. To rear room a Tudor-arched doorway in studded partition containing a studded board door with rear batons and strap hinges. Moulded Tudor- arched bressumer to fireplace. Wall posts and studding exposed. C17 plaster cornice. C19 staircase with ramped handrail. First floor: jowled posts and wall plates exposed. Front room, to second bay a cambered tie beam with plaster paterae to centre and arched braces. Jacobean strapwork frieze. Indications of large concealed fireplace, with Tudor-arched door to right. Clasped purlin roof with some wind braces. Herringbone brick nogging to front gable. No 2 shows timber frame with jowled posts, chamfered tie beams and arch braces. One studded partition to 1st floor and wall studding. Centre range has restored clasped purlin roof. The manor of Bourn Hall was granted to Cardinal Wolsey in 1528 on the suppression of the Priory of St Peter at Ipswich. In 1609 the manor was purchased by Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of England.

Listing NGR: TM1611941554

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Legacy System number:: 277299
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.