Doveden Hall
DOVEDEN HALL, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230459
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Doveden Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DOVEDEN HALL, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230459
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Doveden Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVEDEN HALL, CHEDBURGH 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:
- DOVEDEN HALL, CHEDBURGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whepstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82174 58971
Details
TL 85 NM WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD
4/127 Doveden Hall (Formerly listed under General) 14.7.55
II
House, C15, altered and extended late C16. 2 storeys and attics; 4-window range. Timber-framed and rendered; encased in C19 gault brick (now painted) at the front. Plaintiled roofs with fine C16 rear chimneys of red brick; a row of 4 octagonal shafts with moulded bases, now linked at the head by an oblong cap; a pair of similar shafts serving the parlour block. C19 windows with gauged brick flat arches and 2-light small-pane casements. Boarded entrance door at the side. A C15 3-cell open hall house facing west; the service end within a projecting cross-wing at its south end, and a parlour cell at the north end. Major alterations of late C16 include:- flooring-over and conversion to kitchen of the open hall; service end cross-wing almost rebuilt, and converted (after extension eastwards) into the main south-facing range. Within the extension a new parlour formed, with full wainscotting and a frieze with carved leaf motif, an integral carved overmantel with strapwork and arcading in panels between crude classical pilasters; open fireplace with 4- centred arch. Upon this moated site stood a messuage which was given, together with lands, to the Abbey of St. Edmunds in 1292 for the support of St. Petronilla's Chapel in Bury St. Edmunds. The present house was leased to John Smith of Gt. Horningsheath in 1522. (Gage, History of Thingoe Hundred, 1838).
Listing NGR: TL8217458971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405377
- 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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