Brockley Hall
BROCKLEY HALL, HAWK'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229174
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brockley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BROCKLEY HALL, HAWK'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229174
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brockley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROCKLEY HALL, HAWK'S 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:
- BROCKLEY HALL, HAWK'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brockley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82653 55526
Details
TL 85 NW BROCKLEY HAWK'S LANE
4/42 Brockley Hall
I
Farmhouse, formerly manor house; a late C13 or early C14 aisled hall house, with alterations of C16 and later; possibly for Alexander de Walsham, who held the manor of Brockley from 1303 to c.1338. Hall range with 2 cross-wings; 2 storeys. Timber-framed and rendered. Glazed pantiled roof at front, plaintiled at rear; axial and external chimneys of red brick; the C16 parlour chimney to left has crow-stepping. Mainly C19 casements. Entrance door with 6 fielded panels; oblong fanlight. The main range consists of an aisled hall 10.5 metres long and 8 metres wide, in 2 equal bays. The contemporary narrow crosswing to left was probably the parlour, with solar above. The cross-wing to right is of c.1700, but on the site of the original service cell, some of whose members it reuses. The open truss of the hall consists of a pair of octagonal arcade posts with moulded capitals, straight braces up to the cambered tie-beam and to the arcade-plate, doubled passing-braces which begin at the aisle walls, clasp the post and tie-beam and cross before joining the rafters of the opposite slope. The closed truss at the parlour end of the hall is similar, but the bracing members are plank-like in section and there is additional bracing at low-level. The truss at the service end has almost gone, but had passing-braces. There are 4 additional tie-beams in the hall roof. The main coupled-rafter roofs of hall and parlour wing are almost unaltered. The open truss of the cross-wing has a double-chamfered tie-beam, once knee- braced, with vestigial passing-braces sitting upon the tie beam. The quality of the original carpentry is unusually high. A chimney and first floor were inserted in the hall C16, in two stages. The parlour end refurbished c.1800. A complete, perhaps contemporary, rectangular enclosing moat. Included as grade I, because a rare and relatively complete example of an aisled manor house which retains at the rear some of its original aisle walling.
Listing NGR: TL8265355526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403982
- 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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