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Latitude: 52.3102 / 52°18'36"N
Longitude: 1.2172 / 1°13'1"E
OS Eastings: 619404
OS Northings: 272882
OS Grid: TM194728
Mapcode National: GBR VL6.2K7
Mapcode Global: VHL9P.16TB
Plus Code: 9F438668+3V
Entry Name: Reading Hall
Listing Date: 29 July 1955
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1180876
English Heritage Legacy ID: 280972
ID on this website: 101180876
Location: Mid Suffolk, IP21
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Denham
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Denham St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: House Thatched farmhouse
DENHAM
TM 17 SE
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Reading Hall
29.7.55
II
Former farmhouse. C16 hall range and early C17 2-cell cross-wing to right
forming T-shape plan. Timber framed and roughcast-rendered under a thatched
roof. 2 storeys and attics. Mid C20 casement windows without glazing bars.
Doorway placed in front gable end of cross-wing: mid C20 door and open porch
with wooden trelliswork. Heavy square stack at junction of the 2 ranges; to
north the shaft has an inset oblong panel with an upper sawtooth brick course,
probably once over a lobby entrance. Intact studding is visible in the upper
rooms, the wall braces in the hall range (and probably the cross-wing) halved
against the outside of the studs. Plain or slightly chamfered joists, all set
flat except for the cross-wing attic floor where they are placed on edge. A
ground floor open fireplace in the cross-wing has a semi-circular back. An
upper room in the cross-wing has some C17 ornamental plasterwork on the
chimneybreast: a central roundel containing foliage and a small foliage motif
to each side. Plasterwork in rear gable of cross-wing is painted with the
initials 'IR' and the date 1684 (or possibly 1634). Roof over hall range has
one row of clasped purlins and a little straight wind bracing: this roof seems
to be a C17 replacement.
Listing NGR: TM1940472882
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