The Old Guildhall
THE OLD GUILDHALL, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180771
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL, MILL STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-09-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/08027/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180771
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL, MILL STREET
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:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL, MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gislingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 07385 71812
Details
GISLINGHAM MILL STREET (NORTH SIDE) TM 0771 6/47 The Old Guildhall 29.7.55 (formerly listed as Old Guildhall Cottages)
GV II*
House, latterly 3 dwellings. Late C15, stacks added and floor inserted c.1600, part rebuilt late C17, altered c.1800 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof. 4 bays, a 2 bay open hall with storeyed end bays. Now all 2 storeys and attic. Two C20 doors, that to right into solar bay, to left approximately into original cross passage, C20 leaded casements, ground floor hoodboards, over hall upper bay an inserted 2-light dormer with hipped thatched head. Axial ridge stack inserted in lower bay of hall and cross passage. Right or solar gable end early external stack tapering to base with a single offset, behind a pantiled lean-to outshut, in attic an early latticed light. Exposed C17 purlins in both gable ends. Interior: much of frame is concealed, original door rebate into service bay to left, largely rebuilt following a fire in C17, straight tension bracing in walls, stop chamfered axial binding beam; in hall inserted stop chamfered axial binding beam and joists, a chamfered four centred arched door head into solar bay which has a rebated jowled storey post with a small chamfered brace to a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, plain joists. First floor open truss jowled posts are rebated with traces of corbelling to large arched braces to cambered tie beam, all chamfered; straight arched braces from posts to wall plates halved inside close studding with mid-rail. Solar end wall tension bracing, arched fireplace; inserted ogee stop chamfered axial binding beams at both ends. Crown post roof, tall octagonal post to open truss with roll and bell moulded cap and base, 4 way arched bracing, smoke blackened rafters over hall and solar, roof over end bays largely rebuilt with side purlins. (East Anglian Miscellany Vol.21, 1927, pp.45-8, E.Mercer, English Vernacular Houses, R.C.H.M, pp.202-3, NMR).
Listing NGR: TM0738571812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975), 202-3
East Anglian Miscellany in East Anglian Miscellany, (1927)
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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