MELTON GRANGE HOTEL

MELTON GRANGE HOTEL, PYTCHES ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096056
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: MELTON GRANGE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: MELTON GRANGE HOTEL, PYTCHES ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096056
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: MELTON GRANGE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: MELTON GRANGE HOTEL, PYTCHES ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MELTON GRANGE HOTEL, PYTCHES ROAD

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Melton
National Grid Reference:: TM2727849643

Details

MELTON

1120/0/10005 PYTCHES ROAD 15-APR-03 Melton Grange Hotel

II

Large house, now hotel. Dated 1898, but probably with C18 origins. For Major J.E.W. Howey. Red brick with slate roofs behind battlements. Elaborate stone and terracotta dressings. Various moulded brick stacks with decorative multiple flues. Jacobethan Renaissance style. 2 storeys. Long principal facade with stone and brick mullion and transom windows. It includes canted polygonal 2-storey bay to left, projecting gable with shaped outline and incorporating terracotta panels including the date 1898, the set-back staircase window with stonework panels carved with putti and strap-work, and the canted entrance bay with double-leaved door up steps and with elaborate frontespiece over. Extensions to far right and rear, C20, but may include earlier work. INTERIOR: Staircase hall partly panelled and with open-well staircase that has turned balustrade, carved frieze, and wooden chimneypiece with fluted pilasters in hall. Southern room with corner turret has elaborately plastered ceiling, frieze and central beam supported by columns on scrolled brackets; 2 plastered chimneypieces within niches framed by pilasters on scrolled brackets. North room has deep beamed ceiling, panelled dado and tall wooden inglenook fireplace with ionic columns. Western range has cast iron staircase with bamboo detailed balusters. First floor south room has stair to roof of corner turret.

A large and finely-detailed house of the period displaying features characteristic of earlier Suffolk buildings.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 490022
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.