Glanelly Rest (Exning House) Including Two Attached Gate Ways and Section of Garden Wall to North
GLANELLY REST (EXNING HOUSE) INCLUDING TWO ATTACHED GATE WAYS AND SECTION OF GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, COTTON END ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1374829
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Glanelly Rest (Exning House) Including Two Attached Gate Ways and Section of Garden Wall to North
- Statutory Address:
- GLANELLY REST (EXNING HOUSE) INCLUDING TWO ATTACHED GATE WAYS AND SECTION OF GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, COTTON END ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1374829
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Glanelly Rest (Exning House) Including Two Attached Gate Ways and Section of Garden Wall to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLANELLY REST (EXNING HOUSE) INCLUDING TWO ATTACHED GATE WAYS AND SECTION OF GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, COTTON END ROAD
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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:
- GLANELLY REST (EXNING HOUSE) INCLUDING TWO ATTACHED GATE WAYS AND SECTION OF GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, COTTON END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Exning
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62244 65982
Details
TL 66 NW NEWMARKET COTTON END ROAD, (including EXNING) EXNING
1/84 Glanelly Rest 25.1.63 (Exning House) including two attached gate- ways and section of garden wall to north. (Formerly listed as The Glanelly Rest (formerly Exning House) under General)
II*
Home for the elderly. Formerly country house; 1734, by Andrews Jelfe, altered and extended 1896 by Philip Webb. The original building to right, 7 bays with central 3 bays set slightly forward under a pediment; 3 storeys on basements. Red brick, reddened with fine white pointing. Limestone dressings; unmoulded strings at 1st and 2nd floors, rusticated quoins and modillion eaves cornice. Hipped slated roof and central chimneys of red brick. Windows with moulded limestone frames and small-pane sashes; altered C19. Prominent open former entrance porch of limestone: Corinthian columns supporting an enriched entablature with segmental arched pediment (the glazed screen inserted c.1896). A fine elliptical C18 staircase rising through 3 floors, with slender barley sugar pattern balusters, scrolled tread-ends and open string. At the rear a similar entrance doorway in limestone, with early C19 half-glazed panelled door; limestone steps and lion-head ornamented wrought-iron railings. The large extension of 1896 to left on 2 storeys with attics and basements, showing Rennaissance influence with limestone quoins and parapets where it abuts the C18 building, but graduating to the Arts and Crafts style towards the kitchen end. Red brick slated and hipped plaintiled roofs. A variety of casements and sash windows. 2 storey entrance porch with pair of half-glazed oak panelled doors. The dining room has a fireplace, panelling, etc. typical of Webb's work. Attached to the rear, two fine mid C18 gateways, both having a pair of red brick gatepiers with limestone cappings, one pair surmounted by limestone urns; wrought iron gates with side-panels and crown. At the north end a high mid C18 garden wall of red brick extends for 40 metres with a short return southwards. Included as grade II* because a rare, almost complete example of a country house by Philip Webb.
Listing NGR: TL6207066079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275644
- 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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