Monkey Lodge
MONKEY LODGE, FRESTON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351631
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Monkey Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- MONKEY LODGE, FRESTON HILL
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- Date:
- 1999-08-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/00221/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351631
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Monkey Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKEY LODGE, FRESTON HILL
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:
- MONKEY LODGE, FRESTON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Freston
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17505 39970
Details
TM 13 NE FRESTON FRESTON HILL (East side) 4/6 Monkey Lodge GV II Lodge. 1861 on date plaque. C20 alterations to rear. For John Berners. White brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. 3 intersecting rectangles with C20 porch to angle at rear. 1½ storeys. Moulded plinth. Front range has rusticated angle pilasters with paired ashlar capitals and frieze with swag ornament to returns. Dentilled cornice, pedimented gable end. Sashes with glazing bars in ashlar architraves with cyma recta cornices and brick aprons. Gable end has ashlar plaque between ground floor and attic windows bearing coat of arms and motto DEL FUEGO EL AROLA. Segmental arch to attic sash. Subsidiary ranges have rusticated angles and square recesses, sunk panels above sash windows in ashlar architraves. Moulded cornices. Stack to rear has curvilinear gable with plaque inscribed 18 1B 61. Further stack to rear left is panelled and corniced with flanking scrolled brackets. Attached to front left is short wall with rusticated corniced pier with ball finial. Formed lodge to Woolverstone Hall (qv). The motto and name of the lodge are said to relate to an incident where a pet monkey saved a child of the Berners family from a fire.
Listing NGR: TM1750539970
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277285
- 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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