Elveden Hall
ELVEDEN HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037611
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Elveden Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ELVEDEN HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037611
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Elveden Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELVEDEN HALL
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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:
- ELVEDEN HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elveden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82462 79720
Details
TL 87 NW ELVEDEN ELVEDEN PARK
2/17 Elveden Hall - 27/1/72 - II*
Large country mansion, built in 2 major phases. The west wing, c.1879, by John Norton for Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, formerly Maharajah of the Punjab. (This wing is believed to contain the core of the earlier Hall of c.1760). The central hall and east wing added 1899-1903 by William Young for Edward Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh. In the Classical Style. West wing of 3 storeys and 11 windows, A:B:C:B:A. Red brick with limestone dressings; ground floor of banded rusticated ashlar, upper floors of brick with rusticated quoins. Moulded cornice and balustraded parapets. Entrance bay slightly set forward, with segmental pediment on 4 giant columns. Set forward end bays with 2-storey splayed bay windows. French casement windows; at ground floor with semi-circular heads, at 1st floor with pediments. Low-pitched leaded and slated roofs with chimneys of red brick. The east wing added by Young is almost identical externally; his kitchen wing beyond was demolished c.1970. As a centrepiece he added the Marble Hall, rising through 4 storeys, surmounted by a cupola with copper-covered dome. The extrance bay has a portico rising through 1st and 2nd storeys; the pediment has a cartouche with the date 1900, flanked by palm-fronds. The attached porte-cochere has a balustraded flat roof and stands on clustered columns. The main rooms in the west wing have elaborate wood and plaster decoration, with Hindu and Moorish motifs intermingled with classical forms. The entrance hall and west drawing room have drop-traceried arcading and are heavily encrusted with Hindu ornament. The west staircase has traces of original bright red paint; other spaces also once had bright primary-coloured paintwork. Young's central Indian Hall of white Carrera marble dominates the house; top lit, with the dome traceried and the pendentives encrusted with stalactites. Arcaded balconies on 4 sides are recessed behind the main supporting drop-traceried arches, all enriched in a similar manner to the west entrance hall. The east wing has no Indian work; the Cedar Room has joinery in the Rennaisance style of high quality, and the staircase and other spaces are also in the manner of C17 and C18. For detailed description, see article in Country Life magazine, 14th-21st March 1984.
Listing NGR: TL8246279720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275758
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 14 March, (1984)
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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