Listed Building: PLUMTON HALL (405374)

TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD 4/124 Plumton Hall (Formerly listed as Plumpton 14.7.55 House under General) II House, early C18 with possible earlier core, altered and extended early C19 and c.1914. 2 storeys; the central block consists of hall range and 2 cross- wings. Timber-framed and rendered. Plaintiled roofs with coved plaster cornices; the cross-wing roofs hipped. Axial chimneys of gault and red brick. Mainly early C18 cruciform casements; some early C19 casements. C20 hipped plaintiled 1-storey entrance porch with battened and boarded door. To the left, a C18 2-storey pyramid-roofed pavilion, with linking 1-storey kitchen (a matching pavilion at right-hand end was demolished c.1914 for large extension of red brick and plaintiles). A parlour in the east wing has complete late C18 joinery in the Gothick style; a fireplace with carved Gothick overmantel has the coat of arms with carved ornament of Sir Thomas Hammond. In the entrance hall a C20 Tudor style fireplace has, reset, a fine oak arcaded overmantel of c.1600, the walls fully panelled with contemporary wainscotting. In the c.1914 library a fine reset oak overmantel with carved figures of c.1600. For engraving of house c.1800, and history of the moated site, which was an orchard farm for St. Edmunds Abbey, see Gage, History of Thingoe Hundred, 1838. Listing NGR: TL8166257997