Braham Hall

BRAHAM HALL, BRANTHAM HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1193926
Date first listed:
30-Oct-1990
List Entry Name:
Braham Hall
Statutory Address:
BRAHAM HALL, BRANTHAM HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1193926
Date first listed:
30-Oct-1990
List Entry Name:
Braham Hall
Statutory Address 1:
BRAHAM HALL, BRANTHAM HILL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRAHAM HALL, BRANTHAM HILL

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Brantham
National Grid Reference:
TM 09973 33540

Details

TM 03 SE BRANTHAM BRANTHAM HILL (WEST 7/15 SIDE)

22.2.55 Braham Hall

II

House of several builds. C16 or earlier. Timber framed and plastered rear ranges with some red brick ranges, red plain tiled roofs. C18/C19 gault brick facing to front and left return. Large, steeply pitched, hipped grey slate roof, projecting eaves. Hipped central forward range with lower roof level. 2 gault brick chimney stacks to rear left, external stack to right of forward range and a stack to centre right of main range. End stacks to lower rear ranges. 2 storeys. Central band. 2:1:2 window range of mainly small paned vertically sliding sashes excepting 2 horizontal sliding sashes to first floor right, 2 double lights to ground floor right and an angled central bay to ground floor. C19 flat headed porch, 2 panel 2 light door, fanlight over, moulded surround to right of left range. Vertically boarded door, segmental head to left of right range. Former seat of the Braham Family. Thomas Tusser 1527-1580 author of "500 points of Good Husbandrie"; published 1557 lived here and is believed to have written the book here. P G M Dickinson. The Little Guide to Suffolk 1957.

Listing NGR: TM0997333540

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
278807
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Little Guide to Suffolk, (1957)
Dickinson, P G M, Five Hundred points of Good Husbandrie, (1557)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Braham Hall

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