Manor House

MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1037615
Date first listed:
16-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Manor House
Statutory Address:
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1037615
Date first listed:
16-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Manor House
Statutory Address 1:
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH 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.

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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:
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Freckenham
National Grid Reference:
TL 66747 71807

Details

TL 67 SE FRECKENHAM CHURCH LANE

3/24 Manor House - - II*

House, formerly manor house, late C17 with rear extension of 1934. 4 windows; 2 storeys and attics. Pink/buff brick with double moulded string at 1st floor, and parapet gables. Plaintiled roof with external end chimneys of pink brick, recapped C19 in gault brick; another external C17 chimney to rear with sunk panel in shaft. Gabled C19 dormers with rendered cheeks and small-pane casements. 3-light wdoden windows of C18 and C19, without lintels; metal casements with leaded lights, some containing crown glass. Early C20 6- panelled entrance door with flat canopy on brackets. In a rear contemporary timber-framed and plastered wing is a fine C17 staircase of pine; heavy panelled newels with drop-finials, and urn balusters. A ground floor room has complete late C17 decoration, with full moulded panelling and cornice, fireplace-surround and 2-panelled doors with broad shouldered architraves. A 1st floor room is fully panelled with wainscotting of a plainer C17 type. Other rooms have less-complete C17 and C18 joinery. A rear service range to left, formerly of one storey, was raised to 2 storeys and extended 1934.

Listing NGR: TL6674771807

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Legacy System number:
275765
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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