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Nowton Hall

A Grade II* Listed Building in Nowton, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.211 / 52°12'39"N

Longitude: 0.7224 / 0°43'20"E

OS Eastings: 586101

OS Northings: 260464

OS Grid: TL861604

Mapcode National: GBR QFD.9H5

Mapcode Global: VHKDB.GPSF

Plus Code: 9F426P6C+9X

Entry Name: Nowton Hall

Listing Date: 14 July 1955

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1031160

English Heritage Legacy ID: 284443

ID on this website: 101031160

Location: Nowton, West Suffolk, IP29

County: Suffolk

District: West Suffolk

Civil Parish: Nowton

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Nowton St Peter

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


In the entry for the following:-

TL 86 SE NOWTON

Nowton Hall
4/22
-
14.7.55

GV II

The grade shall be amended to read II * (star)

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TL 86 SE NOWTON

4/22 Nowton Hall
-
14.7.55
II

Former farmhouse. Dated 1595 on chimney-stack, with the initials A.P. for
Anthony Payne (d.1606): an earlier C16 fragment remains, and there are
additions of the C18 and C19. 2 storeys and attics: 3-cell form to main
range. Timber-framed; jettied along the main front: ground storey faced in
colourwashed brick, upper storey rendered. C20 plaintiles. An internal
chimney-stack has 4 octagonal shafts with attached heads and moulded bases; on
the square base below is a large plaster panel with an unusual raised
fishscale decoration surmounted by the date and initials. Another internal
stack, further west, has a plain red brick shaft. Small-paned sash windows
and 2 canted bays to the ground storey; tripartite small-paned sash windows to
the upper storey. An off-centre early C20 half-glazed door set into a late
C18 surround with eared architrave and rectangular traceried fanlight. Much
of the framing is exposed inside. At the west end of the main range are the
remains of an early C16 cross-wing, now re-roofed in line with the rest of the
range, with a later chimney-stack on its east side. This part has tension
bracing to one end wall, and on the west side a further half-bay which may be
the truncated section of an earlier hall range. The remainder of the main
range relates to the date of 1595 on the chimney-stack: 5 bays, including a
chimney-bay, with an original stair-wing behind it which contains an
apparently resited stair with a plain handrail to the first floor; the upper
flight leading to the attics may be a later date. A large open fireplace with
timber lintel to the east of the main stack. Good close-studding with a
middle rail to the whole range; ovolo-moulded main beams to ground and first
floor ceilings, and a number of ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, now blocked,
but with mullions in situ. The roof has clasped purlins, large principal
rafters and the remnants of windbraces, but the attics, which are original,
are mainly plastered. The house stands on the remains of a roughly E-shaped
moated site. Prior to the Dissolution, the manor belonged to the Benedictine
Abbey of St. Edmundsbury.


Listing NGR: TL8610160464

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