MOOT HALL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1269716
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- Statutory Address:
- MOOT HALL, MARKET CROSS PLACE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- MOOT HALL, MARKET CROSS PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Suffolk Coastal (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldeburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 46552 56862
Details
ALDEBURGH
TM4656 MARKET CROSS PLACE
837-1/4/37 (East side)
27/02/50 Moot Hall
GV I
Market Cross, now town hall. c1520, altered 1654; hall
restored, external staircase and gable ends rebuilt 1854-55 by
RM Phipson.
MATERIALS: timber-framed with brattished middle rails and
arched and tension braces to first floor frame. Ground floor
infill mostly C19 herringbone or plain brick nogging, or flint
and ashlar; first floor infill mostly C17 brick. South gable
and external stack rebuilt in flint and ashlar on ground
floor, brick on upper floor and with brick decorated twin
flues. Plain tile roof with pierced timber bargeboards and
finial to north gable.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, the upper floor jettied. West front has
two 4-centred doorways and an arcade of four 4-centred arches
formerly serving an open market within, now fitted with
2-light lattice casements. Timber-framed external staircase
with pentice roof leads to plain doorway on first floor
towards north end. Other openings are three 3-light mullioned
casement windows. First floor jetty bessummer is carved with
C19 leaf trail decoration. On east front, flint and ashlar
walling at south end is pierced by two lancets. Elsewhere on
ground floor windows are two 3-light and four 2-light
mullioned and transomed casements. First floor lit by two
3-light mullioned and transomed casements. Jetty bessummer
decorated with ribbon trail carving.
North gable wall has one 7-light mullioned and transomed
casement window with lattice glazing on first floor, beneath
bessummer carved with C19 vine trail decoration.
INTERIOR: ground floor consists of 3 rooms, each with
4-centred doorways with carvings in the spandrels. Heavy
chamfered bridging beams, and similar cruciform bridging beams
in north room. Jowled principal studs to timber-frame. Upper
hall with 4 bays of chamfered tie beams on arched braces.
Double struts to principals, 2 tiers of passing braces, the
upper ones on arched windbraces. Collars and upper collars.
South chimney-piece removed for restoration at time of Review.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth: 1974-:
72).
Listing NGR: TM4655256862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing