Brandeston Hall
BRANDESTON HALL, OLD MAIDS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198631
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Brandeston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BRANDESTON HALL, OLD MAIDS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198631
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Brandeston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRANDESTON HALL, OLD MAIDS 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.
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:
- BRANDESTON HALL, OLD MAIDS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brandeston
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 24746 60220
Details
TM 26 SW BRANDESTON OLD MAIDS LANE
9/18 Brandeston Hall 25.10.51 GV II*
Former manorial mansion, now a school. Original house c.1550 for Andrew Revett: only the east wing and entrance porch survive from the fire of 1847; remainder rebuilt 1848 (dated rainwater heads) for Charles Austin, lawyer and head of the Parliamentary Bar. Red brick with diapering in dark headers; plaintiled roof. Neo Tudor style; L shape asymmetrical plan. The north facade of the main range has slightly projecting gabled wings and the ground floor is set forward with a moulded brick cornice; later single storey additions to right hand side. 2 storeys and attic. Stone mullion and transom casement windows. 2 storey gabled entrance porch with octagonal corner buttresses surmounted by moulded brick pinnacles with stone caps; doorway with 2-centre moulded stone arch, hoodmould with carved spandrels, C19 door; over the doorway an inscription in Latin recording the acquisition of the Hall by Framlingham College in 1949. Stone eaves cornice, flat parapet with one attic gable each side of entrance; all gables have moulded brick pinnacles with stone caps. Several good groups of circular flues with moulded brick enrichment. East wing has original stone newel stairs; library (east wing) with C19 richly coloured ceiling with roll-moulded joists and 4-centre arch stone fireplace with elaborate carved wooden chimneypiece (probably imported); masters' common room with imported C17 panelling, good overmantel and ornamental plaster ceiling; headmaster's study with similar panelling and overmantel and ceiling with painted portraits of 24 famous men; good C19 wooden staircase with richly painted ceiling over; ornamental plaster ceilings to White Hall and dining hall; a further good fireplace in the games room. Extension to west added 1967, not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TM2474660220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285790
- 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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