Redisham Hall

REDISHAM HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182824
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1953
List Entry Name:
Redisham Hall
Statutory Address:
REDISHAM HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182824
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1953
List Entry Name:
Redisham Hall
Statutory Address 1:
REDISHAM 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.

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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:
REDISHAM HALL

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Ringsfield
National Grid Reference:
TM 40156 85945

Details

RINGSFIELD TM 48 NW 5/38 Redisham Hall 1-9-53 - II Mansion. Original house built in 1823 for John Garden; considerably enlarged and entirely refaced c.1880 for John Lewis Garden, with further additions of 1904 for Thomas De la Garde Grissell. Upper floor of north wing rebuilt c.1955. Red brick, with a first floor band, moulded dentil eaves cornice and flat parapet. Slated roof. 2 storeys and attics. 7 windows, the centre 3 bays set slightly forward: inset sashes with glazing bars and moulded brick surrounds; segmental-headed tripartite windows each side of entrance. Most of the ground floor windows are set high to accommodate a basement floor. Early C20 brick entrance porch with stone clasping pilasters and bracketed segmental hood; entrance door in 2 leaves, approached by a flight of steps. Above the doorway is a coat of arms with the motto 'Press Forward'. 9 bays to rear: the form of the original house is visible in the 5 centre bays with mansard roof and 5 pedimented dormers. French windows lead onto a terrace with wrought iron railings, dated 1905. Attached to the south are various outbuildings, including the coachman's house; further to the left is a single-storey range of stabling, which curves round to the rear. Original entrance hall with vaulted ceiling and 5 semi-circular arched openings, 2 of them blind. Good well stair of stone with a wrought iron balustrade and wreathed mahogany handrail. Modillion-corniced dining room. In the north wing a ballroom with barrel-vaulted ceiling of c.1900, enriched with a lozenge grid and bands of plasterwork with running designs of foilage and flowers; part of a bold convex frieze survives.

Listing NGR: TM4015685945

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
282189
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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