Wall and Gateway South West of Wells Hall

WALL AND GATEWAY SOUTH WEST OF WELLS HALL, MILDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1037386
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:
Wall and Gateway South West of Wells Hall
Statutory Address:
WALL AND GATEWAY SOUTH WEST OF WELLS HALL, MILDEN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1037386
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1958
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Wall and Gateway South West of Wells Hall
Statutory Address 1:
WALL AND GATEWAY SOUTH WEST OF WELLS HALL, MILDEN 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WALL AND GATEWAY SOUTH WEST OF WELLS HALL, MILDEN ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Brent Eleigh
National Grid Reference:
TL 94571 47304

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25/01/2013


TL 9447 53/178
5377
23.1.58


BRENT ELEIGH
MILDEN ROAD
Wall and gateway South West of Wells Hall


(Formerly listed as Gateway and Wall to Wells Hall)


GV
II*


Boundary wall and gateway C16 with C19 repairs. English bound red brick.
Section boundary wall about 70 yards long and about 6 feet high with plinth
moulding and roll-moulded saddle-back terracotta coping ( some of coping
renewed). Towards the right hand end a small buttress with set-offs and at
the left end 4 larger C19 buttresses, also with set-off. Gateway off
centre with double-chamfered round arch, the arch of the corner order is
ovolo moulded; battlements above with 3 diagonally-set pinnacles, the
centre pinnacle is taller; flanking buttresses with set-offs and C20
wrought-irongate.
The south east end of the wall has been rebuilt and a later outbuilding has
been built against the wall, inside atthe south east end.

Listing NGR: TL9457147304

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
276325
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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