Listed Building: THORINGTON HALL (278643)

THORINGTON STREET 1. 5377 Stoke-by-Nayland Thorington Hall (formerly listed as Thorington Hall with barn and outbuildings opposite the house) TM 0135 25/908 10.1.53. II* GV 2. A fine C17 timber-framed and plastered house with much original detail. There are cross wings at the north-east and south-west ends and a staircase wing rises to above eaves level on the south-east front. The north-east wing has a jettied gable on both fronts, carved bressummer and bargeboards. The south-west wing has an oriel window on the upper storey on the north-west side, on 4 shaped brackets. There is also a jettied gable with carved bressummer and bargeboards. The windows are mostly mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights, some with C17 fastenings. There are some original windows, blocked. On the south-east front there is a modern glazed door with a C18 doorcase with a scroll pediment on brackets. Roofs tiled (old tiles), mostly gabled but some hipped. There are 2 heavy chimney stacks, one particularly fine with 6 grouped octagonal shafts with spurred caps and moulded bases. The interior has many good C17 features including an early C17 staircase with turned balusters and newel posts with carved finials and pendants. There is also a good C17-C18 staircase, C17 fireplaces and casement fittings. Listing NGR: TM0131235465