Berners Hall
BERNERS HALL, B1456
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246146
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Berners Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BERNERS HALL, B1456
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246146
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Berners Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BERNERS HALL, B1456
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:
- BERNERS HALL, B1456
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolverstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 18304 38545
Details
WOOLVERSTONE
TM1838 B1456
1339/7/10001 Berners Hall
16-MAY-01
II
Reading Room and attached cottage, now village hall. 1887. Probably by JP St.Aubyn and HJ Wadling. Red brick with brick plinth and tile hanging to cottage. Plain tile roof with ornamental cresting tiles and gable finials. Brick stacks to hall left cross gable, main ridge far right and cottage rear gable. Restrained Arts and Crafts style. Single storey hall with cottage of single storey and attic. Long range has projecting cross gable to left with small bellcote, main range of hall with, to right, projecting porch and cottage gable facing. 6-window range in all of wooden mullion windows, those to hall with transom. Mainly of 3- and 4-lights they have fine leaded-light casements with coloured glass in the narrow margins. Plank door in re-entrant angle of hall cross wing. Double-leaved plank Gothic arched door to front of porch with low windows to sides. A 4-light and a single-light casement to the cottage with a 4-light casement over surrounded by tile hanging. On left end of hall a similar window with two transoms. On rear wall a further 3-light and 4-light window with transom and similar glazing and a single-storey flat-roofed C20 extension. At the right end a projecting arched recess under a pentice roof with small C20 door within. 4-light window to cottage first floor gable.
INTERIOR. Hall has open roof with rafters, purlins and wood and metal ties. Stage to one end behind proscenium arch.
This hall, which was commissioned by the Berners family, is a carefully judged design where the fine glazing is made a feature. St.Aubyn and Wadling were carrying out a major rebuilding of the church at the same time as the construction of the hall and they may have designed it as well. It was used as a temporary church but was presumably intended to be the Reading Room it then became. The integral caretaker's cottage suggests this use was intended. In the C20 it was the men's club and then the village hall.
Laverton, Sylvia, Exploring the past through place names: Woolverstone. Stamford,1995,p5,p17.
Listing NGR: TM1830438545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487571
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Laverton, S, Exploring the past through place names: Woolverstone, (1995), 17
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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