The Old Guildhall
THE OLD GUILDHALL, QUAKER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376915
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL, QUAKER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376915
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL, QUAKER 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:
- THE OLD GUILDHALL, QUAKER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bardwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 94160 73622
Details
TL 9273 - 9373 BARDWELL QUAKER LANE (NORTH SIDE)
5/36 The Old Guildhall 14.7.55 (Formerly listed as The Guildhall)
- II
Hall of the Guild of S.Peter, converted into 12 almshouses in C16, restored as 2 houses in early 1960's. Late C15. Timber-framed and plastered, with plaintiled roofs. The east-west range is gabled at the east end, hipped with a small gablet on the west. 2 storeys: L-shaped form. An internal chimney-stack to each range. Mid C20 casement windows with square-leaded panes, and C20 doors. 2 small late C17 plaster panels with floral designs reset in the outer wall of the east-west range above the door. The brickwork at the south side of the chimney-stack was left exposed following restoration. The interior of the north-south range has very heavy studding and 2 plain crown-post trusses with arched braces, and seems to have been built as a 3-bay open hall (cf. the hall arrangement at Church House, Hawstead, another late C15 guildhall). On a later cross-wall inside at the south end, a large plaster panel in high relief of c.1600, showing Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, set into a surround of strapwork and scrolls.
Listing NGR: TL9416073622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284013
- 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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