SOTTERLEY HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1183257
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: SOTTERLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: SOTTERLEY HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1183257
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: SOTTERLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: SOTTERLEY HALL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SOTTERLEY HALL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Sotterley
National Grid Reference:: TM 45903 85204

Details

SOTTERLEY SOTTERLEY PARK TM 4585 7/48 Sotterley Hall 1.9.53

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Manor house. Circa 1745 for Miles Barne; later alterations, notably of c.1840 and 1911. Red brick, originally stuccoed, with chamfered rustication to the quoins and a continuous enriched wooden modillion eaves cornice and a balustraded parapet. Roof of glazed black pantiles. H-shape plan with shallow projecting wings at the front and back. 2 storeys with attics. The main facade has 9 windows, 2:1:3:1:2, the centre 3 bays set slightly forward and pedimented, with the Barne family arms in the tympanum. The section of wall between the wings was brought forward slightly in 1911 but rebuilt as before. Inset sash windows with slender glazing bars, stone architraves; the ground floor windows to the wings have been lengthened. The central first floor window has a segmental pediment and the 2 adjacent windows have triangular pediments. The entrance, together with curved scone balustrade with flight of 6 steps, was added c.1840. 6-panel raised and fielded door, semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, panelled reveals and delicately-carved architrave. The doorcase has a stone surround with engaged Corinthian columns carrying an enriched entablature and pediment. The return fronts are arranged 1:3:1, the centre 3 bays set forward and pedimented; there are small pedimented dormer windows. The left hand return front has a central Venetian doorway in the fluted Roman Doric order, with heavy pediment; the doorway is approached by a flight of 6 stone steps. Immediately above is a fine Venetian window in the fluted Ionic order, supported on 4 heavy consoles. There is a Diocletian window in the tympanum. 4 blank panels to ground floor; the first floor windows have heavier glazing bars and may be original. The right hand return front has ground floor windows extending to ground level, the centre window with a pediment supported on Ionic pilasters; these windows were altered in mid or late C19. The central first floor windows are pedimented as in the main facade and there is a square window in the tympanum. The rear elevation is similar in form to the main facade: pedimented stone doorcase on engaged Ionic columns, with rusticated inner surround; pedimented central first floor windows and an oculus in the tympanum above. The inner returns of the flanking wings have a single semi-circular headed blank panel on each floor. Interior. In the entrance hall is a richly-carved early C17 oak overmantel, said to come from the previous house on this site. The dining room behind has enriched plaster panelling and a carved fluted Corinthian surround to the external doorway. This room has a very fine fireplace, of wood-grained plaster, with flanking consoles terminating in outward-facing female busts, and a central tablet with head of Aurora against a rayed background. The library is also fully-panelled, with a rich cornice and a marble fireplace with scrolled pediment. A passage in the left hand wing has part of a plaster ceiling with stylised arabesque ornament; in the adjacent room is a good fireplace with a central head of Bacchus. The main staircase has one twisted and one fluted baluster to each tread, carved tread-ends, and a ramped and weathered handrail. A secondary stair extending to attic level has closely-spaced turned balusters. There are many carved doorcases and doors, the Corinthian doorcase at the top of the main stair being particularly good. 2 first floor rooms have fireplaces with Rococo decoration and marble linings.

Listing NGR: TM4590385204

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Legacy System number:: 282007
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.