Great Welnetham Hall
GREAT WELNETHAM HALL, STANNINGFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230270
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Great Welnetham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT WELNETHAM HALL, STANNINGFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230270
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Great Welnetham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT WELNETHAM HALL, STANNINGFIELD 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:
- GREAT WELNETHAM HALL, STANNINGFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Whelnetham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 88053 59206
Details
TL 85 NE GT.WELNETHAM STANNINGFIELD ROAD
5/110 Gt. Welnetham Hall
14.7.55
II
House; early C17, altered and extended C18. 2 storeys and attics; 5 window main range. Timber-framed and rendered with fan pargetting in large panels. Plaintiled roofs with dentil eaves; hipped plaintiled casement dormers; axial and gable chimneys of red brick. Late C18 or early C19 small pane sash windows. 6 fielded panelled entrance door with moulded architrave and flat leaded canopy on console brackets. Near-complete C17 oak wainscotting in hall and parlour; a frieze of carved cresting over the restored parlour fireplace. An original gabled staircase wing at rear, with large ovolo-moulded mullioned window at attic level. 1 1/2 storey service wing added to north end C18. Sir Richard Gipps, antiquarian, lived here (d.1708). The house stands on the moated site of the mediaeval manor house.
Listing NGR: TL8805359206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404985
- 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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