The Hall
THE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120783
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120783
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HALL
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:
- THE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Canfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 59343 17940
Details
TL 51 NE GREAT CANFIELD CHURCH END
2/48 THE HALL
GV II
Manor house, late C16 and early C17, extended in C19 and C20. Timber-framed and plastered (the C19 and C20 parts brick and plastered), roof tiled. The earliest part is of L-plan, a C16 crosswing aligned NE-SW and an early C17 wing aligned NW-SE, each with an axial chimney. In the C19 a block was added in the angle, and the roofs integrated and hipped all round. In the C20 the NW-SE wing was extended to the SE and a further block built in the angle. Two storeys. SW elevation: on the ground floor one bay window with C20 casements, C20 gabled porch, and late C19 sash window. On the first floor, one early C19 sash window and 2 late C19 sash windows. NW (garden) elevation, 2 early C19 sash windows and trellised porch, 3 early C19 sash windows above. No framing exposed internally. Roof of NE-SW crosswing originally of crownpost construction, altered to clasped purlin. Roof of NW-SE wing of clasped purlin construction. This is the third manor house established in Great Canfield, built on a new site by Thomas Wiseman I or II, between 1579 and 1602, possibly part of a larger house of E-plan. (The Hearth Tax return of 1662 records 16 hearths). (Eland, p. 143-4, Morant, II, 462).
Listing NGR: TL5934317940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morant, P, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, (1768), 462
Other
Eland,
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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