Cann Hall
CANN HALL, CONSTABLE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1111549
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cann Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CANN HALL, CONSTABLE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1111549
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cann Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANN HALL, CONSTABLE AVENUE
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:
- CANN HALL, CONSTABLE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1665516747
Details
TM11NE
1665/7/3
4.7.86
CLACTON-ON-SEA
CONSTABLE AVENUE
Cann Hall
GV II*
House. Circa 1512, built for St Osyth's Priory, with some C18 alterations; refenestrated in C20. Timber framed and plastered with close-studding mainly concealed and with brick nogging infill to south front. Red plain tiled roof, hipped with gablets. Off centre left red brick chimney stack. Comprises two bay hall aligned east-west with in line service end to the est and upper end cross-wing to the west which projects to the north. The hall and parlour were heated by an original stack. Continuous jetty on the south front. To the north are the fragmentary remains of a further timber framed building, probably detached kitchen, now attached to main house. Two storeys. Five windows to main front first floor with C20 two and three-light casements and three C20 oriels to ground floor. Vertically boarded door in original segmental head to right. Interior has exposed frame of high quality including open fireplaces, elaborate hall ceiling with transverse beam with highly ornate oak-leaf stops. Two axial beams with elaborate moulding and crown post roof with traces of reddish ochre colour remaining. After the suppression of St Osyth's Priory in 1539, Cann Hall passed to Thomas Cromwell, later to Princess Mary and to Lord Darcy in 1553. Dendrochronological analysis of 36 timbers from the hall and service range, the crosswing and the kitchen range produced a tree-ring chronology for the period AD 1301-1511. The latest timbers were felled in the winter/spring of AD 1511/12. RCHM 4.
SOURCES: RCHM interim report on Cann Hall, October 1997.
AM Laboratory report 00/98 "Tree-ring analysis of Cann Hall, Clacton, Essex" 1998
5873(Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England) An Inventory of Essex North East, 1922 Vol. 3.)
Listing NGR: TM1665516747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 119863
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922)
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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