Hall Farm House

HALL FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181726
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:
Hall Farm House
Statutory Address:
HALL FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181726
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Hall Farm House
Statutory Address 1:
HALL FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HALL FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Mellis
National Grid Reference:
TM 09136 74168

Details

MELLIS THE COMMON (NORTH WEST TM 07 SE SIDE) 3/20 Hall Farm House (formerly 29.7.55 listed as Mellis Hall and Barn, Mellis Green)

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Farmhouse. Mid to late C16, extended C17, altered and extended C19. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs. An L on plan with broad 2 cells of cross passage, hall and parlour; service wing to rear. 2 storeys and attic. Possibly jettied to front originally. Central entrance: 6 panelled door, doorcase with fluted pilasters, roundels to open pediment. Parlour to left has ground floor 3-light and first floor 2-light glazing bar casements, hall to right has 3 and 4-light glazing bar casements, all C19 with hoodboards. Boxed eaves. Left gable end first floor 3-light casement, pentice board to attic with small casement, exposed plates and purlins. Right gable end external stack in a c19 1 storey 1 bay addition with entrance towards main range, 6-panelled door in an open porch with outer fluted jambs, pedimental head, architraved 4-light glazing bar casement, hipped roof. Main range to rear has a recessed boarded door opposite front door, 2 and 3-light casements, an inserted stack in parlour on rear roof slope. Service wing extends to rear right: lower ridge and eaves, multiform ridge stack towards front, inner boarded door and 3-light C19 casements, outer half glazed door, scattered casements, rear gable end exposed plates and purlins. Interior: hall has a double roll moulded axial binding beam, parlour has wave moulded joists, service wing has stop chamfered binding beams, otherwise frame concealed and not inspected (said to have some panelling). A moated site. (East Anglian Miscellany, 1913, pp.63-70).

Listing NGR: TM0913674168

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Legacy System number:
280308
Legacy System:
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Sources

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East Anglian Miscellany in East Anglian Miscellany, (1913), 63-70

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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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