Doveden Hall

TL 85 NM WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD

4/127 Doveden Hall (Formerly listed under General) 14.7.55

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House, C15, altered and extended late C16. 2 storeys and attics; 4-window range. Timber-framed and rendered; encased in C19 gault brick (now painted) at the front. Plaintiled roofs with fine C16 rear chimneys of red brick; a row of 4 octagonal shafts with moulded bases, now linked at the head by an oblong cap; a pair of similar shafts serving the parlour block. C19 windows with gauged brick flat arches and 2-light small-pane casements. Boarded entrance door at the side. A C15 3-cell open hall house facing west; the service end within a projecting cross-wing at its south end, and a parlour cell at the north end. Major alterations of late C16 include:- flooring-over and conversion to kitchen of the open hall; service end cross-wing almost rebuilt, and converted (after extension eastwards) into the main south-facing range. Within the extension a new parlour formed, with full wainscotting and a frieze with carved leaf motif, an integral carved overmantel with strapwork and arcading in panels between crude classical pilasters; open fireplace with 4- centred arch. Upon this moated site stood a messuage which was given, together with lands, to the Abbey of St. Edmunds in 1292 for the support of St. Petronilla's Chapel in Bury St. Edmunds. The present house was leased to John Smith of Gt. Horningsheath in 1522. (Gage, History of Thingoe Hundred, 1838).

Listing NGR: TL8217458971