Hurts Hall
HURTS HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268178
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Hurts Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HURTS HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268178
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Hurts Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HURTS HALL
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:
- HURTS HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Saxmundham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 38958 62544
Details
SAXMUNDHAM
TM3862 HURTSHALL PARK 841-1/4/47 Hurts Hall
II
Country house. 1893; south front loggia extended in early C20. Diapered brick with ashlar dressings and rendered window surrounds; machine tile roofs with irregularly placed banks of 2 to 6 octagonal brick stacks. Jacobethan style: elongated rectangle running east-west with entrance to north. EXTERIOR: corners articulated by tall gabled projections and, at south-east corner, by polygonal bay through 2 storeys. Principal fronts to west and south. West front has tall gabled projection to left with a ground-floor bay window consisting of 3 pairs of cross casements. Single 2-light cross casement to first floor, 1-light casement to attic. Apex and base pinnacles to gable. Canted bay in angle with main elevation and three 2-light cross casements to right (2 to first floor). Canted 2-storey corner bay at south-east corner, with four 2-light cross casements to each floor. Crenellated parapet. South front with a 4-bay stone open loggia on Corinthian columns with a balustrade. Throughout, windows are generally 2-light cross casements arranged singly or grouped. INTERIOR: passageway from north entrance leads to 2-storey staircase hall. Open-well staircase with square panelled newel posts terminating with ball finials on volutes at the top and supported on consoles at the base. Twisted balusters. Closed string. Hall with teak wainscote panelling. Plastered ceiling of geometric patterns. Main reception rooms to south and south-east of hall with further, more elaborate, geometric plastered ceilings. Wide open arches to upper staircase landing. The present house replaced a house by Samuel Wyatt of 1803, burnt down in 1889. (BOE: Pevsner N: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth: 1974-: 413).
Listing NGR: TM3895862544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 413
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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