Hestley Hall
HESTLEY HALL, HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215487
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hestley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HESTLEY HALL, HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215487
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hestley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HESTLEY HALL, HALL ROAD
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:
- HESTLEY HALL, HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorndon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14643 68142
Details
THORNDON HALL ROAD TM 16 NW 4/79 3/79 Hestley Hall (formerly listed under 29.7.55 Hestley Green) - II
Manor farmhouse. First half of C16, in 2 ranges forming L-shape plan; large forward extension of early C19 date. Front range once extended further to left. Timber framed and plastered, with some panelled plasterwork. Plaintiled roof, hipped over the C19 addition which has a paired bracketed eaves cornice. 2 storeys. Mullion and transom casement windows, probably of early C19 date, with diamond-leaded glass. C19 addition has a symmetrical 3- bay facade with tall central window over a late C19 stuccoed porch with semi- circular entrance arch; within the porch is a 6-panel raised and fielded door and pedimented architrave. Heavy internal stack, the old portion of the shaft with later additions. Rear wing has jettied side wall on original brackets, 2 springing from carved buttress-shafts; moulded bressummer. Gable end has first floor buttresss-shaft to corner post and original brackets to ends of wallplates. Some C18 casement windows. Internal stack with oblong shaft, the lower portion rendered. A C18-C19 stack against the gable end. Various mullioned windows to rear of both wings, some reproductions. Interior. Front range altered internally in C19, with a twisted-baluster well stair of c.1900 in the forward addition. Ground floor room to left of stack has chamfered- joist ceiling and C19 stone fireplace originally at Flixton Hall. One upper room has ceiling beams decorated with stencilled designs of foliage on a red ochre ground, said to be of c.1525. Roof over front range has clasped purlins and arched-braced collars, the portion to the right of the stack reconstructed when the C19 addition was made. Rear wing less altered, especially on upper floor. End chamber has 3 cavetto-moulded axial bridging beams, plain joists and a plank cornice; 4-centre arched doorway. A larger chamber adjoins, now divided into 2, also with cavetto floorbeams. Ground floor ceiling has closely-spaced chamfered joists. End gable has remains of original brick nogging (plastered over externally). Intact roof with wind-braced clasped purlins.
Listing NGR: TM1464368142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281360
- 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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