Box Hall

BOX HALL, BOX HALL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1198340
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Box Hall
Statutory Address:
BOX HALL, BOX HALL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1198340
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Box Hall
Statutory Address 1:
BOX HALL, BOX HALL LANE

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:
BOX HALL, BOX HALL LANE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Hollesley
National Grid Reference:
TM 34084 44775

Details

HOLLESLEY BOX HALL LANE TM 34 SW (south side) 10/119 Box Hall II Farmhouse. C16 with C17 and C19 additions. Timber framed with colourwashed brick skin of Flemish bond bricks and brick with plaintiled rcof formerly partially thatched. Entrance front: Projecting C17 wing at left with shaped gable end to which has been added a further, lower C19 gabled addition. C15 or C16 portico to right of this and recessed. In the re-entrant angle between the two wings is a further C19 addition. This has a C20 glazed doorway at left approached by 3 steps with a pergola before it. To first floor above this is a 2-light gabled dormer window. The C16 portion at right of this has C20 fenestration set into earlier openings. To right of centre are French windows and at either side of this 2-light casement windows set in cambered- headed openings. To left of centre is a 2-light gabled dormer window of C20 date. Gable stack at right and massive ridge stack at left of centre. The left hand wing has a shaped gable to the end of the C17 portion with concave lower mouldings and semi-circular top. Moulded brick coping and band of 2 bricks depth. Moulded kneelers and central chimney stack. The C19 addition has a blank gable end, its right hand flank has a glazed C20 door at right and a 2-light casement window at left. The left hand flank has the C17 portion at left housing a 3-brick band between the floors and two 2-light casement windows to the ground floor at right and two single-light windows at left. S and cross-shaped tie-rod plates to the first floor. 2-light gabled dormer windows to the first floor at left of C20 date. The roof is hipped at left and has the shaped gable at right. Lean-to outshut at left forming a catslide with the hipped roof. The C19 right hand extension has a 2-light casement to ground floor with cambered relieving arch and a similar window to the first floor. The right hand gable end has 2 ground floor single-light windows and 2 cambered-headed single casements to the first floor. The ground floor walling shows scars from an addition, now demolished. Rear: Catslide-roofed outshut at right immediately to left of which is a Cl9 half-glazed door. To left of this are three 2-light C20 casement windows. The two at right being placed in earlier openings and having cambered relieving arches over. Three 2-light gabled windows to the attic. Interior: chamfered ceiling beams to the ground floor rooms of the C16 portion and rafters.

Listing NGR: TM3408444775

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
285485
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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