Mettingham Hall
Mettingham Hall, Beccles Road, Mettingham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352600
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Mettingham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Mettingham Hall, Beccles Road, Mettingham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352600
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Mettingham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Mettingham Hall, Beccles Road, Mettingham
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:
- Mettingham Hall, Beccles Road, Mettingham
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mettingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 36732 89760
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 July 2023 to correct the grade, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
TM 38 NE
4/15
METTINGHAM
BECCLES ROAD
Mettingham Hall
1-9-53
GV
II*
Farmhouse. Mainly mid C17 but part possibly earlier. Red brick, with a plastered facade; part of the left wing has mid C20 textured render. There is a corbelled string course around most of the house at first floor level, raised segmentally over the windows; similar arches form drip moulds over the upper windows on the wings. Plaintiled roof. Two storeys and attics.
H-type plan with shaped gables except to the rear of the shorter left wing. Symmetrical facade arranged 1:3:1. Mainly C18 cross windows, some lights retaining square-leaded glass; the left wing has mid C20 windows, the right wing an original ovolo-moulded attic window. C18 pedimented doorcase and six-panel door. The door surround is painted to resemble quoins. The centre section and inner returns of the wings have a plaster coved eaves cornice. Against the right wing is a C17 lean-to addition, and behind this a truncated external stack. The rear of the centre section shows signs of alteration: there is one C18 four-light square-leaded window with cornice and a second truncated stack. The left wing terminates in an axial stack which is placed internally and suggests that this wing may have once extended further to the rear. The attached remains of the dairy are now used as garaging.
The interior has been somewhat altered. The main feature is the fine original stair in the right wing, extending to the attic around a narrow rectangular well: there are turned balusters and newels with acorn finials. The room in the rear of this wing has a quoined stucco fireplace with three-centre arch, enriched with lozenge and triangle motifs. This room had complete C18 panelling, now removed. Some bridging beams have ornate stop-chamfers.
Listing NGR: TM3673289760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sandon, E, Suffolk Houses: A Study of Domestic Architecture, (1977), 101, 273-275
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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