Abbas Hall
ABBAS HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180619
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Abbas Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ABBAS HALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1180619
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Abbas Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBAS HALL
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:
- ABBAS HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Cornard
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 90097 40408
Details
Great Cornard 1. 5377 Abbas Hall TL 94 SW 9/173 16.4.71. I
2. A timber-framed and plastered house with a cross wing at the west end. One of the 2 examples of late C13 aisled hall houses known in Suffolk (The other example is Purton Green Farmhouse, Stansfield). It possibly dates from 1270 to 1290. The interior has been restored and shows the original layout with the 2 doorways to the service rooms replaced approximately in their original position in the closed truss at the lower end of the hall. Details of the open truss with arcade posts with moulded capitals and long passing braces with notched lap joints can be seen on the upper storey. The truss has considerable C15 modification. The C13 structure is of remarkable interest. There is a great open fireplace of the C16 when the floor to the upper part of the hall was inserted. Externally the house has C18-19 fenestration, mainly double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The cross wing is faced in brick (painted). Roof tiled, with a gambrel at the east end and 1 gabled dormer to the main block. On the west side there is a C16-C17 chimney stack with tabled offsets. Much of the internal timber has been exposed.
Listing NGR: TL9009740408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277968
- 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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