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© Mr John Harris LRPS
IoE Number:
278546
Location:
BRETTESTON HALL, UPPER STREET (east side)
STANSTEAD, BABERGH, SUFFOLK
Photographer:
Mr John Harris LRPS
Date Photographed:
16 April 2002
Date listed:
09 February 1978
Date of last amendment:
03 May 1990
Grade
II
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Upper Street
1.
5377 (East side)
Stanstead
TL 84 SW 5/803 Bretteston House
II
2.
The description shall be amended to read:-
Rectory, now house. Early C18 front and rear extension to early C17 house;
extended and altered c.1890. Early C18 Flemish bond brick over timber frame;
Flemish bond brick extensions to rear; old plain tile roof, hipped to front
and gabled to rear; brick ridge and end stacks. Plan: C17 house extended
to rear in early C18 to make L-plan with rear left wing; rear right wing of
c.1890. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 7-window range. Late C19
rendered porch to front of 6-panelled door in moulded wood architrave and
surrounded by reset early C17 panelling. Bay window to right has gauged
brick segmental arches over late C19 two-light casements set in moulded wood
architraves; similar fenestration to other segmental-arched windows; deep
eaves; hipped roof dormers. Early C18 two-storey rear left wing: gauged
brick segmental arches over two C19 first floor sashes of sixteen panes and 20
panes; bay to rear remodelled in mid C20. Late C19 two-storey rear right
wing has horned sashes with glazing bars and bay window.
Interior: large room to left has reset quartered chamfered beams, some
ovolo-moulded, and panelling dated 1617 with decoratively-carved frieze and
fine marquetry panels to overmantle; panelled room to right has cased beam
and strapwork carving to late C19 eared fireplace architrave; rear right room
has reset similar early C17 panelling, a very fine reset fireplace of c.1600
with flanking terms and strapwork carving, and reset moulded early C16 beams
with foliate stops; reset C17 panelling and some mid C18 panelling to stair
hall, which has reset open well staircase with heavy turned balusters (some
replaced in late C19); first floor has reset chamfered beams, C18 cupboard
with H hinges and C18 winder staircase to attic. The fine C17 interior
features and C16 beams appear to have been reset in their present position in
the late C19.
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In the entry for:-
UPPER STREET
1.
5377 (East Side)
Stanstead
TL 84 SW 5/803 Bretteston House
II
The address shall be mended to read:-
UPPER STREET
(East Side)
Stanstead
Bretteston Fall
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UPPER STREET
1.
5377
(East Side)
Bretteston Hall
TL 84 SW 5/803
II
2.
A C18 brick front to a C16-C17 timber-framed house. The front was altered
in the C20. 2 storeys and attics. 7 window range, C20 casements with
segmental heads. Roof tiled, hipped, with 3 hipped dormers on the front.
The interior has fine C16 and C17 panelling in many rooms and 1 room has
C18 panelling and fireplace.