EUSTON HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376940
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: EUSTON HALL
Statutory Address:: EUSTON HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1376940
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: EUSTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: EUSTON HALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: EUSTON HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Euston
National Grid Reference:: TL 89834 78620

Details

TL 87 NE EUSTON EUSTON PARK

4/28 Euston Hall 14.7.55 GV II*

Mansion. Built for Lord Arlington in the 1660's around the core of an earlier house: remodelled by Matthew Brettingham in the mid C18: rebuilt in similar style following a serious fire in 1902, and halved in size in 1951, when the south and west wings were demolished. Built of red brick, with balustraded stone parapets and dressings. 2 storeys and attics, with 3-storey corner turrets capped by low pyramidal roofs. The north (now principal) front by Brettingham is very restrained in style: 9 bays, small- paned sash windows in flush frames, the 3 central windows more widely spaced. Single-storey porch with flat roof concealed by cornice and parapet, and semi-circular arched doorway with rusticated surround. The north range contains a late C17 dog- leg stair, with bulbous balusters, wide moulded handrail and hanging finials, a survival from the Arlington House. John Evelyn, the diarist, spent near a fortnight at Euston Hall in October 1671, and described it as 'a very noble pile, consisting of 4 pavilions after the French, (i.e. the angle turrets) beside a body of a large house... formed of additions to an old house...with a vase expense made...very magnificent and commodious'. At that time,. the angle turrets were domed, and the principal entry in the west range had 'a tall porch with giant angle pilasters' (Pevsner): the house formed 3 sides of a courtyard. As remodelled by Brettingham, the turrets were given pryamidal roofs, resembling those at Holkham Hall, and the centre of the west front has a 3-bay pediment.. The house at this stage is illustrated in 'Excursions through Suffolk', 1819, and described as'large and commodious of a modern date, built of red brick, and without any gaudy decoration within or without.' Lord Arlington was a member of Charles II's Cabal, and Lord Chamberlain. His only daughter and heiress married Henry Fitzroy, a son of Charles II, who was created Duke of Grafton in 1675. The house has continued to be the seat of the Dukes of Grafton.

Listing NGR: TL8983478620

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 284149
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Excursions Through Suffolk, (1819)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 39 Suffolk,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.