Manston Hall
MANSTON HALL, TUFFIELDS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230469
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MANSTON HALL, TUFFIELDS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230469
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Manston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANSTON HALL, TUFFIELDS 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:
- MANSTON HALL, TUFFIELDS 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:
- TL8344156716
Details
TL 85 NW
4/151
14.7.55
WHEPSTEAD
TUFFIELDS ROAD
Manston Hall
(Formerly listed under Melon Green)
II
House, former manor house; mid C16, extended c.1600, C18, and early C20. 3-
cell, cross-passage entrance plan, with later service cross-wing. Exposed
timber-framing with rendered panels between; the original house long-wall
jettied at the front on brackets. Thatched roof, hipped at left-hand end, with
axial chimneys of red brick; a group of 4 mid C16 octagonal shafts with moulded
caps and bases, on square plinth with sunk panel. C16 and C17 moulded
mullioned windows, restored C20 with iron casements and leaded lights; some C18
leaded casements. Boarded C20 entrance door; arched-headed frame with carved
spandrels. The original house has arch-braced close-studding and twin arched
service doorways into buttery and pantry. Above the fireplaces of the parlour
and parlour chamber are late C16 black letter inscriptions painted on plaster;
the former quotes the Geneva Bible of 1560, the latter has not been deciphered.
In the parlour chamber a frieze of painted foliage and traces of extensive wall
decoration. The kitchen cross-wing to right added c.1600. Small C18 wing at
rear possibly added as a separate dwelling. The house restored and extended to
left early C20, by Basil Oliver ARIBA. The manor was held, and the present
house built by the Sturgeon family from C16 to C18; the encircling moat is
probably of C13 or C14 origin.
Listing NGR: TL8344156716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405400
- 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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