Hempnalls Hall
HEMPNALLS HALL, WILLOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180451
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hempnalls Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HEMPNALLS HALL, WILLOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180451
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hempnalls Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEMPNALLS HALL, WILLOW 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:
- HEMPNALLS HALL, WILLOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cotton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08064 67554
Details
COTTON WILLOW LANE (off) TM 06 NE 2/26 Hempnalls Hall 29.7.55
GV II Manor house. Late C16; small C18 rear wing, replacing an earlier range to the west which ante-dated the existing main range. Restored 1980's. Timber framed, mainly plastered, the front with panelled plasterwork of 1980's. Fine C16 crowstepped red brick gable end to right. Plaintiled roof. 2 storeys and attic; 1½-storey rear wing. 3 windows, 4-light casements with mid C20 square- leaded glass. Between the upper windows, 2 original windows with ovolo- moulded mullions. Central late C18 doorway: reeded architrave with corner squares (once adorned with masks), broken entablature and open dentilled pediment enclosing semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Old door with 6 fielded panels. 3 gabled dormers. C16 gable end has paired windows at 3 levels, those to the upper floors blocked. Integral stack with 2 detached octagonal shafts on moulded bases. A further stack to rear has oblong base and 3 square shafts set diamondwise. Left gable end is of later date, the house probably once extending further: ground floor has brickwork of c.1700 and an original ovolo doorframe, re-positioned from elsewhere. Interior. 2 fine stone fireplaces have moulded 4-centred arches and shield-carved spandrels; fireplace in parlour has one shield inscribed 'EC' (for Elizabeth Clare) and dated 1636. A stuccoed attic fireplace. An elaborately-carved Flemish fireplace in an upper room was inserted in 1980's. One ovolo service doorway, a blocked front cross-entry doorway and an upper doorway to the earlier wing (now lost). Much original or early C17 internal panelling was removed in early C20; a little remains. One bay of hall ceiling removed to accommodate a 1980's well stair. Roof has 2 rows of butt purlins. Surrounding medieval moat.
Listing NGR: TM0806467554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281611
- 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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