Thorington Hall
THORINGTON HALL, THORINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200597
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Thorington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THORINGTON HALL, THORINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200597
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Thorington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORINGTON HALL, THORINGTON 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:
- THORINGTON HALL, THORINGTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke-by-Nayland
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01312 35465
Details
THORINGTON STREET 1. 5377 Stoke-by-Nayland Thorington Hall (formerly listed as Thorington Hall with barn and outbuildings opposite the house) TM 0135 25/908 10.1.53. II* GV
2. A fine C17 timber-framed and plastered house with much original detail. There are cross wings at the north-east and south-west ends and a staircase wing rises to above eaves level on the south-east front. The north-east wing has a jettied gable on both fronts, carved bressummer and bargeboards. The south-west wing has an oriel window on the upper storey on the north-west side, on 4 shaped brackets. There is also a jettied gable with carved bressummer and bargeboards. The windows are mostly mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights, some with C17 fastenings. There are some original windows, blocked. On the south-east front there is a modern glazed door with a C18 doorcase with a scroll pediment on brackets. Roofs tiled (old tiles), mostly gabled but some hipped. There are 2 heavy chimney stacks, one particularly fine with 6 grouped octagonal shafts with spurred caps and moulded bases. The interior has many good C17 features including an early C17 staircase with turned balusters and newel posts with carved finials and pendants. There is also a good C17-C18 staircase, C17 fireplaces and casement fittings.
Listing NGR: TM0131235465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278643
- 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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