Beauchamps
BEAUCHAMPS, SHOPLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112579
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Beauchamps
- Statutory Address:
- BEAUCHAMPS, SHOPLAND ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112579
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Beauchamps
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAUCHAMPS, SHOPLAND 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:
- BEAUCHAMPS, SHOPLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Rochford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 90752 88409
Details
SUTTON SHOPLAND ROAD TQ 88 NE (south side) 12/313 Beauchamps 4.12.51 GV 11* House, dated circa 1688 of possibly earlier origin with later alterations and additions. Timber framed and plastered. Red plain tiled roof. Off centre left original and rear right partly rebuilt red brick chimney stacks, also chimney stacks to rear ranges. Red plain tiled roofs. Tripped roof to 2 storey porch, (inner right bay). 2 storeys. Modillioned eaves cornice. 3:1:1 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. Originally the building front was pargetted but this no longer exists. There is a panel dated 1688 between the second and third first floor windows. Fluted surround, frieze and flat canopy to porch doorway, part glazed double doors with side margins. Internal features, all conforming to the circa 1688 date, include a fine plaster ceiling of 2 bays divided by a carved beam, in each bay is an eliptical wreath of laurel leaves and berries with central pendants of fruits and flowers surrounded by 4 cherubs heads alternating with rosebuds, outside the wreaths at either end of the ceiling are roses and fleur-de-lis. There is a fine staircase with barley sugar twist balusters adjacent to the chimney, an unusual position at this date. Panelling to some rooms, moulded surrounds, wainscots, dados and ornate ceiling covings. 2 fine fireplace surrounds, that to ground floor with painted landscape over. Original staggered side purlin roof. Home of Rev. Philip Benton, C19 Historian. RCHM 4.
Listing NGR: TQ9075288409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 123286
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex South East, (1923)
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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