Great Bardfield Hall
GREAT BARDFIELD HALL, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087112
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Great Bardfield Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT BARDFIELD HALL, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087112
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Great Bardfield Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT BARDFIELD HALL, BRAINTREE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT BARDFIELD HALL, BRAINTREE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67793 30269
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD (west side)
8/116 Great Bardfield Hall 2.5.53 GV II
House. C16, altered in C18/C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Approximate H-plan facing S, comprising (1) at left end, a 3- bay crosswing extending to the rear only (2) a 2-bay main range, this and the crosswing jettied to the front (3) an unjettied 2-bay extension to the main range (4) a 4-bay crosswing extending to front and rear, C18 external stack at left end, C16 internal stack at junction of main range and right crosswing, C18 stack at rear end of right crosswing, with C18 single-storey extension beyond. C17/C18 lean-to extension behind main range, enclosing stair. 2 storeys and attics. Below jetty at left, one plain bracket and 2 late C19 splayed bays of sashes of 2-4-2 lights. One early C19 sash of 20 lights, one C20 casement. First floor, 4 early C19 sashes of 20 lights and one early C20 oriel. 3 C19 casements in gabled dormers. Roof of right crosswing hipped at front. The interior has jowled posts, some exposed close studding, chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, exposed plain joists of horizontal section in rear bay of right crosswing. Mortises for removed diamond mullions in left side of right crosswing. Crosswing has clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing. Right section of main range has clasped purlin roof without wind bracing. The owner reports high ground-floor windows with ovolo mullions on each side of the splayed bays, now covered by lath and plaster externally and internally. This manor house, situated near the church, exhibits an unusual and complicated development, all apparently within the C16. It was replaced as the seat of the manor by Great Lodge from 1621, but may have become the manor again when Great Lodge was demolished c.1729. RCHM 2.
Listing NGR: TL6779330269
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115255
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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