Listed Building: HURTS HALL (462123)

SAXMUNDHAM TM3862 HURTSHALL PARK 841-1/4/47 Hurts Hall II Country house. 1893; south front loggia extended in early C20. Diapered brick with ashlar dressings and rendered window surrounds; machine tile roofs with irregularly placed banks of 2 to 6 octagonal brick stacks. Jacobethan style: elongated rectangle running east-west with entrance to north. EXTERIOR: corners articulated by tall gabled projections and, at south-east corner, by polygonal bay through 2 storeys. Principal fronts to west and south. West front has tall gabled projection to left with a ground-floor bay window consisting of 3 pairs of cross casements. Single 2-light cross casement to first floor, 1-light casement to attic. Apex and base pinnacles to gable. Canted bay in angle with main elevation and three 2-light cross casements to right (2 to first floor). Canted 2-storey corner bay at south-east corner, with four 2-light cross casements to each floor. Crenellated parapet. South front with a 4-bay stone open loggia on Corinthian columns with a balustrade. Throughout, windows are generally 2-light cross casements arranged singly or grouped. INTERIOR: passageway from north entrance leads to 2-storey staircase hall. Open-well staircase with square panelled newel posts terminating with ball finials on volutes at the top and supported on consoles at the base. Twisted balusters. Closed string. Hall with teak wainscote panelling. Plastered ceiling of geometric patterns. Main reception rooms to south and south-east of hall with further, more elaborate, geometric plastered ceilings. Wide open arches to upper staircase landing. The present house replaced a house by Samuel Wyatt of 1803, burnt down in 1889. (BOE: Pevsner N: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth: 1974-: 413). Listing NGR: TM3895862544