Denston Hall
DENSTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031702
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Denston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DENSTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031702
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Denston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DENSTON HALL
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:
- DENSTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75869 52450
Details
1. DENSTON Denston Hall 2006 TL 75 SE 7/177 19.12.61. II* 2. A fine early C18 house with a long range of C16 buildings at the rear, the remains of an early C16 house which is known to have stood on the site. The Hall has an interesting history. In 1564 Henry Cheyney made over the manor of Denston to William Burd without licence to alienate from the crown. Estate was therefore forfeited in 1565 but later returned. William Burd died in 1591, and by 1602 the estate had passed to his son, but was again seized by the crown, for debt and leased to Sir John Robinson. In 1617 it was bought by William Robinson, in whose family it stayed until the early part of the C19. The front part of the Hall is early C18, red brick and blue brick headers, with a parapet and a raised brick band. 2 storeys and attics. 2:5:2 window range on the east front, 3 window range on the inner faces of the wings (some blocked), and 4 window range on the south front. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars in flush cased frames. A raised brick band runs between the storeys. A central Ionic porch projects on the front with fluted columns and a cornice. Roof slate, mansard, with 3 pedimented dormers on the main front, the centre dormer has a segmental pediment. The interior has a good circular hall with rooms to the left and right of it, circa 1770. The left hand room opens on to the staircase with a screen of 2 columns. The ceilings have Adam style ornamentation. The staircase has early C18 twisted balusters. At the rear of the C18 house there is a long range of C16 red brick buildings, part of the original house. It has brick mullioned windows with Tudor arches and brick hood moulds, also Tudor arched doorways with boarded doors with fillets. At the south end there is a fine room with moulded beam and joist ceiling with an embattled frieze and carved spandrels to the arched braced tie beams. There are some linenfold panels with heads in roundels. The room may have been used as a chapel. Roof tiled, with a chimney stack with 2 diagonally set shafts.
Listing NGR: TL7586952450
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 283085
- 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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