FALCON'S HALL

FALCON'S HALL, FINNINGHAM ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241180
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: FALCON'S HALL
Statutory Address:: FALCON'S HALL, FINNINGHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241180
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: FALCON'S HALL
Statutory Address 1:: FALCON'S HALL, FINNINGHAM ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FALCON'S HALL, FINNINGHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Rickinghall Superior
National Grid Reference:: TM 04295 73559

Details

RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR FINNINGHAM ROAD (SOUTH TM 07 SW WEST SIDE) 3/146 Falcon's Hall (formerly 29.7.55 listed as Facon's Hall) GV II Farmhouse. Early C17, possibly with C16 origins, altered and extended C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched machine tiled and pantiled roofs, with some slate to rear. Broad 3 cell cross entry plan with parlour end as a 2 bay jettied cross wing, possibly part of earlier building. 2 storeys and attic. Entrance in cross entry position to left of centre, an early C19 recessed architraved part glazed 6 panelled door, shaped brackets to a pedimental hood; to left a 6 pane glazing bar casement, to right dual 2- light casements, hoodboards. First floor 3-light and dual 2-light casements. Parlour cross wing has a ground floor 3-light casement, jetty on 2 curved brackets, first floor 3-light casement, exposed plates and purlins. Offset plinth, boxed eaves, a 4-light dormer over hall. Axial stack on main ridge between hall and parlour has 3 conjoined hexagonal shafts, that to parlour an addition. Right return 2 first floor 3-light casements. Left gable end 2 and 3-light casements, exposed plates and double purlins, a service door towards rear. To rear 2 lights in cross wing gable, behind hall a C19 lean-to with a catslide roof. C20 lean-to beyond with a half glazed door; an internal kitchen stack to rear of service bay behind which is a C19 timber frame or clay lump backhouse with a slate roof, mixed casements, a loft hatch, left end stack. Interior: frame largely concealed, hall has an ovolo moulded binding beam, parlour end has an exposed stop chamfered post of large scantling, cambered tie beams. C18 cellar. A plan of 1599 shows a 5 bay triple gable fronted house bearing no resemblance to the existing building. Formerly known as Facon's Hall. A partly moated site (East Anglian Miscellany, 1930, pp.1- 25).

Listing NGR: TM0429573559

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 440136
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
East Anglian Miscellany, (1930), 1-25

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.