Reading Hall
READING HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180876
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Hall
- Statutory Address:
- READING HALL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00458/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180876
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- READING 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:
- READING HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19404 72882
Details
DENHAM TM 17 SE 4/31 Reading Hall 29.7.55 II Former farmhouse. C16 hall range and early C17 2-cell cross-wing to right forming T-shape plan. Timber framed and roughcast-rendered under a thatched roof. 2 storeys and attics. Mid C20 casement windows without glazing bars. Doorway placed in front gable end of cross-wing: mid C20 door and open porch with wooden trelliswork. Heavy square stack at junction of the 2 ranges; to north the shaft has an inset oblong panel with an upper sawtooth brick course, probably once over a lobby entrance. Intact studding is visible in the upper rooms, the wall braces in the hall range (and probably the cross-wing) halved against the outside of the studs. Plain or slightly chamfered joists, all set flat except for the cross-wing attic floor where they are placed on edge. A ground floor open fireplace in the cross-wing has a semi-circular back. An upper room in the cross-wing has some C17 ornamental plasterwork on the chimneybreast: a central roundel containing foliage and a small foliage motif to each side. Plasterwork in rear gable of cross-wing is painted with the initials 'IR' and the date 1684 (or possibly 1634). Roof over hall range has one row of clasped purlins and a little straight wind bracing: this roof seems to be a C17 replacement.
Listing NGR: TM1940472882
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280972
- 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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