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Latitude: 52.1782 / 52°10'41"N
Longitude: 0.6815 / 0°40'53"E
OS Eastings: 583441
OS Northings: 256716
OS Grid: TL834567
Mapcode National: GBR QFQ.K3D
Mapcode Global: VHJH1.RJN1
Plus Code: 9F425MHJ+7J
Entry Name: Manston Hall
Listing Date: 14 July 1955
Last Amended: 27 January 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1230469
English Heritage Legacy ID: 405400
ID on this website: 101230469
Location: Gulling Green, West Suffolk, IP29
County: Suffolk
District: West Suffolk
Civil Parish: Whepstead
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Whepstead St Petronilla
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: House Thatched cottage
TL 85 NW
4/151
14.7.55
WHEPSTEAD
TUFFIELDS ROAD
Manston Hall
(Formerly listed under Melon Green)
II
House, former manor house; mid C16, extended c.1600, C18, and early C20. 3-
cell, cross-passage entrance plan, with later service cross-wing. Exposed
timber-framing with rendered panels between; the original house long-wall
jettied at the front on brackets. Thatched roof, hipped at left-hand end, with
axial chimneys of red brick; a group of 4 mid C16 octagonal shafts with moulded
caps and bases, on square plinth with sunk panel. C16 and C17 moulded
mullioned windows, restored C20 with iron casements and leaded lights; some C18
leaded casements. Boarded C20 entrance door; arched-headed frame with carved
spandrels. The original house has arch-braced close-studding and twin arched
service doorways into buttery and pantry. Above the fireplaces of the parlour
and parlour chamber are late C16 black letter inscriptions painted on plaster;
the former quotes the Geneva Bible of 1560, the latter has not been deciphered.
In the parlour chamber a frieze of painted foliage and traces of extensive wall
decoration. The kitchen cross-wing to right added c.1600. Small C18 wing at
rear possibly added as a separate dwelling. The house restored and extended to
left early C20, by Basil Oliver ARIBA. The manor was held, and the present
house built by the Sturgeon family from C16 to C18; the encircling moat is
probably of C13 or C14 origin.
Listing NGR: TL8344156716
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