SERPENTINE WALLS AT PARHAM HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200017
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: SERPENTINE WALLS AT PARHAM HALL
Statutory Address:: SERPENTINE WALLS AT PARHAM HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200017
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: SERPENTINE WALLS AT PARHAM HALL
Statutory Address 1:: SERPENTINE WALLS AT PARHAM HALL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SERPENTINE WALLS AT PARHAM HALL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Parham
National Grid Reference:: TM3150660473

Details

TM 36 SW PARHAM SILVERLACE GREEN

4/161 Serpentine - walls at Parham Hall

- II

A rectangle of serpentine or 'crinkle-crankle' walls, surrounding a vegetable garden and orchard to the east of the house. C18, with early C19 repairs and alterations. Red brick, laid in an irregular bond; about 3m high. Some sections of the walls are more shallowly curved than others; most parts are 2 bricks thick, some are buttressed. There is an unbroken stretch along the east side. Along the west the central section has been rebuilt straight. On the south, a wide original opening gives access to a pond which provided the water supply for the garden.

Listing NGR: TM3150660473

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Legacy System number:: 285933
Legacy System:: LBS

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