Latitude: 52.2643 / 52°15'51"N
Longitude: 1.0026 / 1°0'9"E
OS Eastings: 604990
OS Northings: 267153
OS Grid: TM049671
Mapcode National: GBR SHV.28V
Mapcode Global: VHKD9.BCC0
Plus Code: 9F437273+P2
Entry Name: Bacton Manor
Listing Date: 29 July 1955
Last Amended: 15 March 1988
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1032752
English Heritage Legacy ID: 280487
ID on this website: 101032752
Location: Bacton, Mid Suffolk, IP14
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Bacton
Built-Up Area: Bacton
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Bacton St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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TM 06 NW
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BACTON
CHURCH ROAD
Bacton Manor
(Formerly listed as Manor House Christian Rest Home, previously listed as Manorhouse Farmhouse)
29.7.55
II*
Former Old peoples home, previously a manor house. Circa 1720-1730, for George Pretyman (died 1732). Red brick with burnt headers; a band at first storey incorporating moulded keys above the centre of each window. Plain tiled roofs with hipped slightly set-forward end bays. C19 internal chimneys of red brick and gabled C19 dormers with sashes. Eaves cornice with wooden modillions. A central brick pediment with dentils rising into the apex; in the tympanum is a coat of arms added in 1738 when a Pretyman married Arabella Shelton, whose arms are quartered on the shield, with Pretyman, Garneys and Pistor. The shield is surrounded by a cartouche and a garland of fruit and flowers. Two storeys and attics. A pair of wings two-windows wide, are minimally set forward flanking a five-window main range. Tall, narrow windows with flat arches of finely-gauged brick and painted keystones; original flush frames with mid C19 eight-light sashes. Eight-panel fielded door, architrave surround, fluted Doric pilasters, console brackets, with cornice broken above, and a segmental pedestal.
Fine original internal features: a large panelled staircase hall, with concave twisted balusters to the stairs. Several fully panelled rooms, with four overmantel paintings all by T Bardwell in c1720-1730. One is of this house and includes lower pavilions on each side (demolished in C19), garden walling and gate-ways, all removed. Another painting is of Furness Abbey, another a scene from Don Quixote and another of Susannah and the Elders. There are also original pictorial tapestries. Rear ranges of late C19 and late C20.
Listing NGR: TM0499067153
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