Lark Hall
LARK HALL, SAND PITS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036983
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lark Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LARK HALL, SAND PITS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036983
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lark Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LARK HALL, SAND PITS 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.
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:
- LARK HALL, SAND PITS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holton St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05037 37021
Details
TM 03 NE HOLTON ST MARY SAND PITS LANE (south east side) 2/7 Lark Hall 22.2.55 - II House. Early C15 with later alterations, right cross wing reconstructed c.1939. Timber-framed, rendered. C20 cross wing brick, rendered. Plain tile roof. Red brick stacks. H-plan. Original open hall now 2 storeys with 2-storey gabled cross wings. 2-bay hall and cross wing. Lobby entry formed by insertion of stack into cross passage at left. Studded board door. Replaced mullion and transom window. Swept roof. Triple diamond-set stack probably somewhat rebuilt. Further stack to right. Left cross wing has cross casement flanked by single arched lights. Jettied 1st floor with 3-light casement. 3-light casement and band of pargetting to C20 wing. Return wall of left cross wing has C19 windows in Tudor Gothic style. Rear: cross wings hipped to rear. Stack to left wing. Interior: left service wing retains studded partition wall and one of the service doors with chamfered Tudor arch. Inglenook under chamfered bressummer to rear wall and long shutter groove to front wall. Hall inglenook under chamfered bressummer with plastered chamfered jambs. 2 chamfered bridging beams and exposed joists. Truncated shafts to posts of principal truss. At 1st floor level the latter shows jowled posts with large chamfered arch braces to chamfered cambered tie beam supporting cross-quadrate crown post. Cross wing: jowled posts with arch braces to cambered tie beam supporting plain stop-chamfered crown post with braces to purlin, now incorporated into later partition wall. Studded walls. Diamond mullion mortices and shutter groove to front wall plate. C20 wing contains section of C18 stair balustrade. Hall roof smoke-blackened, cross-quadrate crown post braced to chamfered purlin and collar. Inserted queen struts and clasped purlins.
Listing NGR: TM0503737021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277205
- 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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