Wherstead Hall
WHERSTEAD HALL, REDGATE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281415
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wherstead Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WHERSTEAD HALL, REDGATE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281415
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wherstead Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHERSTEAD HALL, REDGATE LANE
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:
- WHERSTEAD HALL, REDGATE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wherstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16614 40786
Details
TM 1640 WHERSTEAD REDGATE LANE (north side, off) 6/21 Wherstead Hall II House. Rear range. Probably C15 with early C16 and later alterations, early C17 front range with C19 alterations. Major renovation of 1985. Timber-framed, rendered Front range on brick plinth and partly underbuilt in painted brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roofs. T-shaped on plan. Front range of 2 storeys and attic, rear range originally open, floored over in C16. Front range has 3-bay frame. Off-centre early C19 doorcase containing half-glazed door. 16-pane sashes in flush architravesto either side. 6-pane sashes to 1st floor. Off-centre ridge stack, later stack rising through roof at rear. Rear range: entrance adjacent to front range, added pent porch to end. 3 ground floor windows, 4 above, all casements of 1985. Centre ridge stack. Roof hipped to right. Interior: front range, framing exposed including jowled posts and wall plates, chamfered beams with barred ogee stops. Some original wide floor boards. Much interior detailing dating to early C19 alterations. Butt and clasped purlin roof with wind braces. Rear range: fine ceiling with deep transverse beam with double ogee, roll, cavetto and fillet moulding, moulded joists. Roofed in two stages, that part adjacent to front range is a rafter roof with some blackening. Crown post roof to end also somewhat smoke blackened. 2 trusses, one crown post has been cut off and left hanging. Later side purlins on queen struts. Off-centre stack rebuilt in brick 1985. Undergoing renovation at time of resurvey. Moated site.
Listing NGR: TM1661440786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277300
- 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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