Bretteston Hall
BRETTESTON HALL, UPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199902
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Bretteston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BRETTESTON HALL, UPPER STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02895/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199902
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bretteston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRETTESTON HALL, UPPER STREET
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:
- BRETTESTON HALL, UPPER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 84421 49794
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/01/2013
TL 84 SW 5/803
5377
STANSTEAD
UPPER STREET (East side)
Bretteston Hall
(Formerly listed as Bretteston House)
II
Rectory, now house. Early C18 front and rear extension to early C17 house;
extended and altered c.1890. Early C18 Flemish bond brick over timber frame;
Flemish bond brick extensions to rear; old plain tile roof, hipped to front
and gabled to rear; brick ridge and end stacks. Plan: C17 house extended
to rear in early C18 to make L-plan with rear left wing; rear right wing of
c.1890. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 7-window range. Late C19
rendered porch to front of 6-panelled door in moulded wood architrave and
surrounded by reset early C17 panelling. Bay window to right has gauged
brick segmental arches over late C19 two-light casements set in moulded wood
architraves; similar fenestration to other segmental-arched windows; deep
eaves; hipped roof dormers. Early C18 two-storey rear left wing: gauged
brick segmental arches over two C19 first floor sashes of sixteen panes and 20
panes; bay to rear remodelled in mid C20. Late C19 two-storey rear right
wing has horned sashes with glazing bars and bay window.
Interior: large room to left has reset quartered chamfered beams, some
ovolo-moulded, and panelling dated 1617 with decoratively-carved frieze and
fine marquetry panels to overmantle; panelled room to right has cased beam
and strapwork carving to late C19 eared fireplace architrave; rear right room
has reset similar early C17 panelling, a very fine reset fireplace of c.1600
with flanking terms and strapwork carving, and reset moulded early C16 beams
with foliate stops; reset C17 panelling and some mid C18 panelling to stair
hall, which has reset open well staircase with heavy turned balusters (some
replaced in late C19); first floor has reset chamfered beams, C18 cupboard
with H hinges and C18 winder staircase to attic. The fine C17 interior
features and C16 beams appear to have been reset in their present position in
the late C19.
Listing NGR: TL8442149794
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278546
- 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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