Shrubland Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. House.
Shrubland Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- secret-pillar-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrubland Old Hall is a house that, at the time of the survey, served as an annexe to the Shrubland Hall clinic. The main part of the building dates from the mid-19th century. The cross-wing at the southeast end was originally an early 16th-century chapel that was connected to the northwest end of Shrubland Old Hall, which was demolished in the early 19th century.
The main range is constructed of gault brick and features slated roofs, with an axial chimney made of gault brick that has paired octagonal shafts with moulded caps and bases. The building has two storeys and attics, and it includes painted stone mullioned windows, primarily of three lights. The windows flanking the entrance doorway have a linking hoodmould, and there is a panelled door.
The cross-wing is made of stuccoed masonry and has shallow corner pilasters, along with a plain eaves cornice to its slated roof, all of which are part of an early 19th-century remodelling. Notable are the fine terracotta windows dating from around 1520, with one in each gable. The west window features mullions and a transom, with the upper lights adorned with arabesque heads. Each window member has extensive enrichment, and one shield is believed to represent Margaret, the wife of Sir Philip Booth, who was assessed here in the subsidy of 1524. This design can be compared to the south window of Henley Church, as well as those in Barham and Barking.
The chapel's roof is of the early 16th-century butt-purlin type. Inside, one room features a plaster frieze decorated with Catherine wheels and other emblems typical of the 16th century. A drawing by P. Higham, based on a late 18th-century original by Humphry Repton, depicts a 13th or 14th-century two-light window with a quatrefoil and hoodmould in the northwest wall, suggesting that the chapel has a medieval core and received a gallery at the southwest end in the 16th century.
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