Thorington Hall
THORINGTON HALL, BELSTEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351652
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THORINGTON HALL, BELSTEAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351652
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORINGTON HALL, BELSTEAD 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:
- THORINGTON HALL, BELSTEAD 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 14365 41038
Details
TM 14 SW WHERSTEAD BELSTEAD LANE (north side, off) 1/16 Thorington Hall GV II House. Probably early C16 with C18 and later additions and alterations. Timber- framed with brick gable wall to right, rendered. Plain tile roof. Orange brick stack. 3-bay framed original range with added cross wing to rear and later addition to right replacing earlier structure. Further addition to rear. 2 storeys and attic. cellar to part. Off-centre C20 porch. 3-window front with 20-pane sashes to ground floor plus one small C20 casement to left of door. Small-paned casements to 1st floor. Large external stack to left gable, ridge stack to right. Late C18 - early C19 wing to rear with bow containing 20-pane sashes. Interior: 3 bays of framing of stout scantlings exposed to left section. Ground floor: chamfered jowled posts, deep chamfered beams with tenoned-in joists. Inglenook fireplace with replaced bressumer. C18 corner cupboard with shaped shelves, fluted pilasters and moulded archivolt. First floor: jowled posts and cambered tie beams with arch braces. Wall plate shows edge-halved and bridled scarf joint. End wall of early C16 section to right is studded with tension bracing and shows a former doorway indicating earlier range on site of C18 addition. Attic floor apparently inserted. Unmoulded, unbraced crown post roof.
Listing NGR: TM1436541038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277295
- 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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