Bovills Hall
BOVILLS HALL, HIGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1193157
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- Statutory Address:
- BOVILLS HALL, HIGHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13327/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1193157
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOVILLS HALL, HIGHAM ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BOVILLS HALL, HIGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gazeley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 72032 64166
Details
TL 76 SW GAZELEY HIGHAM ROAD
6/41 Bovills Hall
II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16 with major alterations of c.1600, C18 and C19. A much altered open-hall house of 2 or 3 cells. One-and-a-half storeys and attics. Timber-framed, mainly encased C19 in flint rubble with red brick quoins. Flemish gable added C19. Plaintiled roof with gabled casement dormers; C17 or C18 gable chimney of gault and red brick with C20 diagonally-set square flues. C20 casements with leaded lights. C19 1-storey lean-to slated porch with C20 glazed entrance door. The 2-bay open hall has part of the central open truss surviving; jowled storey posts with uncambered tie-beam and part of an unchamfered arch brace. Some close-studded walling of a closed truss and the lodged floor joists of a storeyed end room are visible. The 1st floor was inserted into the hall c.1600. The house extended to left and right, and the roof rebuilt, C18. A large mid-C19 2 storey extension to rear is not of special interest. Included despite later alterations because of the good quality C15 core.
Listing NGR: TL7203264166
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 275601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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