Medina Rajneesh
MEDINA RAJNEESH, HERRINGSWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037617
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Medina Rajneesh
- Statutory Address:
- MEDINA RAJNEESH, HERRINGSWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037617
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Medina Rajneesh
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEDINA RAJNEESH, HERRINGSWELL ROAD
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:
- MEDINA RAJNEESH, HERRINGSWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Herringswell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 71622 70896
Details
TL 77 SW HERRINGSWELL HERRINGSWELL ROAD
4/31 Medina Rajneesh - G.V. II
Large country house; a Neo Sannyas Commune. Formerly known as Herringswell Manor, 1906-7 for A.W. Ballance. In the Tudorbethan style. 2 storeys, asymmetrical in form. Ground floor walling in red brick with limestone dressings; the upper floor faced in half-timbering in various patterns with roughcast infill. Plaintiled roofs with clusters of octagonal startop chimneys of red brick. Multiple gables with bargeboards richly carved with trailing- leaf and other motifs, and with drop finials at the apex. Ground floor windows of limestone with moulded mullions, metal casements, in some instances retaining leaded lights. 1st floor windows similar with wooden mullions. A number of polygonal 2-storey transomed bay windows. Gabled entrance porch, the ground storey open on timber posts with arched openings; the upper storey is jettied and half-timbered and has the date-cartouche 1907. Stone entrance doorway, arched, with pair of multiple-panelled doors. On the south side is a loggia with classical columns supporting a balustraded balcony. The interior decoration is eclectic, with much joinery in the C18 manner; some rooms have fittings in the Art Nouveau style.
Listing NGR: TL7162270896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275772
- 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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