Stable Block and Wall and Former Laundry at Fornham Park
STABLE BLOCK AND WALL AND FORMER LAUNDRY AT FORNHAM PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271249
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block and Wall and Former Laundry at Fornham Park
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK AND WALL AND FORMER LAUNDRY AT FORNHAM PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271249
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block and Wall and Former Laundry at Fornham Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK AND WALL AND FORMER LAUNDRY AT FORNHAM PARK
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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:
- STABLE BLOCK AND WALL AND FORMER LAUNDRY AT FORNHAM PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fornham St. Genevieve
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8400368394
Details
TL86NW
410/1/10003
27-JUL-00
FORNHAM ST GENEVIEVE
Stableblock, wall and former Laundry at Fornham Park
GV
II
Stableblock, wall and former laundry. c.1785. By James Wyatt for Sir Charles Kent. Gault brick with parapeted hipped slate roofs and gault brick ridge stacks. U plan, main range 2 storeys, wings mainly single storey. Symmetrical facade facing stable court, a 7-window range at first floor of 4/8 sashes with central loading doorway above another ground floor doorway. Either side of this an 8/12 sash either side a door with 8-pane overlight. Turning the corner a 4/8 sash either end over a door to left and C20 window to right. On the left the single-storey wing has 3 windows (two 8/12 sashes, one damaged, and a damaged casement), a door with 8-pane overlight and a pair of carriage doors. The right hand wing has C20 door and window and the continuous run of carriage doors has been infilled with C20 brick. Rear is mainly blank.
INTERIOR. Some elements of former stalls survive.
Linked to the left end by a gault brick wall is the former Laundry in gault and red brick with hipped slate roof and gault brick end stacks. 2 storeys. 3/6 and 6/6 sashes with tripartite sash high in the wall facing rear (park). This lights the full-height former laundry room.
HISTORY. These buildings are part of the service buildings for Fornham House which was designed by Wyatt and which was demolished c.1951. Wyatt's drawings for the house are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and in the Wyatt Album at the Metropolitan Museum , New York.
Forms part of a significant group of buildings at Fornham Park.
Listing NGR: TL8400368394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487108
- 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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