Former Stable Block at Bawdsey Manor
FORMER STABLE BLOCK AT BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183183
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stable Block at Bawdsey Manor
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER STABLE BLOCK AT BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183183
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stable Block at Bawdsey Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER STABLE BLOCK AT BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD
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:
- FORMER STABLE BLOCK AT BAWDSEY MANOR, (OFF) FERRY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bawdsey
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 33604 37967
Details
BAWDSEY (Off) FERRY ROAD TM 33 NW (South end) 12/17 18/3/84 Former stable block at Bawdsey Manor (formerly listed as Gatehouse to Stables Yard at Bawdsey Manor) G.V. II Former stable block, now administrative headquarters, despatch section, barbers shop and stores for RAF Bawdsey. c. 1900. Red Flemish bond brick with simulated timber framing and rendered infill with a plain tiled roof. Two storeys with a 3-storey central gate tower. Entrance Front: near- central gate tower with round arch and moulded surround. Above this are 3 single-light casements arranged in a triangular pattern with cambered heads. Diagonal buttresses at right and left which die back via 2 offsets. To the right hand upper corner is a square bartizan clock tower of timber framing with circular clock face having Roman numerals and a decorative upper panel beneath the ogee dome which supports an octagonal louvred bellcote with spire. To left is a round brick bartizan turret with moulded ashlar bracket and cap. Single-light cambered-headed casement to the gable which has a projecting arched panel with ball finial on scroll brackets. To right of this tower and recessed is a 2-storey range with a projecting C20 single-storey porch, to either side of which are cross windows with cambered heads. Above these to the first floor is a timber framed portion with two 2-light casements and 2 gables above these with arched braces and posts. To left of the gateway are, at right, a 2-light window with cambered head and to left a 3-light similar window at ground floor level. To left again is a porchway with arched brackets containing a cambered- headed doorway at right and a single- light casement at left. Diagonal buttress to left hand corner dying back by 2 offsets. Above this at first floor level are a cross window at right with a timber-framed gable above and to left of this a jettied timber framed portion with a canted oriel window which has 4 central lights with semi-circular arched glazing bar above the central lights and a figurehead keystone, and single lights to the angles. Jettied gable above this with arched braces and central kingpost and pebbledashed rendered infill. Two chimney-stacks to the ridge at far right. Cluster of 4 flues at left with richly moulded flues of rubbed brick or terracotta. Three similar flues at far left.
Listing NGR: TM3360437967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285380
- 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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