Plumton Hall
PLUMTON HALL, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278581
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Plumton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- PLUMTON HALL, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278581
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Plumton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLUMTON HALL, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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:
- PLUMTON HALL, CHEDBURGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whepstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 81662 57997
Details
TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD
4/124 Plumton Hall (Formerly listed as Plumpton 14.7.55 House under General) II
House, early C18 with possible earlier core, altered and extended early C19 and c.1914. 2 storeys; the central block consists of hall range and 2 cross- wings. Timber-framed and rendered. Plaintiled roofs with coved plaster cornices; the cross-wing roofs hipped. Axial chimneys of gault and red brick. Mainly early C18 cruciform casements; some early C19 casements. C20 hipped plaintiled 1-storey entrance porch with battened and boarded door. To the left, a C18 2-storey pyramid-roofed pavilion, with linking 1-storey kitchen (a matching pavilion at right-hand end was demolished c.1914 for large extension of red brick and plaintiles). A parlour in the east wing has complete late C18 joinery in the Gothick style; a fireplace with carved Gothick overmantel has the coat of arms with carved ornament of Sir Thomas Hammond. In the entrance hall a C20 Tudor style fireplace has, reset, a fine oak arcaded overmantel of c.1600, the walls fully panelled with contemporary wainscotting. In the c.1914 library a fine reset oak overmantel with carved figures of c.1600. For engraving of house c.1800, and history of the moated site, which was an orchard farm for St. Edmunds Abbey, see Gage, History of Thingoe Hundred, 1838.
Listing NGR: TL8166257997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405374
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gage, J, History of Suffolk Thingoe Hundred, (1838)
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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