Walls and Turrets North West, West and South West of Beckingham Hall
WALLS AND TURRETS NORTH WEST, WEST AND SOUTH WEST OF BECKINGHAM HALL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121866
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Walls and Turrets North West, West and South West of Beckingham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS AND TURRETS NORTH WEST, WEST AND SOUTH WEST OF BECKINGHAM HALL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121866
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walls and Turrets North West, West and South West of Beckingham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS AND TURRETS NORTH WEST, WEST AND SOUTH WEST OF BECKINGHAM HALL, CHURCH ROAD
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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:
- WALLS AND TURRETS NORTH WEST, WEST AND SOUTH WEST OF BECKINGHAM HALL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tolleshunt Major
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 90928 11274
Details
TOLLESHUNT MAJOR CHURCH ROAD TL 91 SW (east side) 3/107 Walls and turrets NW, 30.12.59 W and SW of Beckingham Hall,(formerly listed as Boundary Wall at Beckingham Hall) GV II
Walls and turrets of courtyards, 1543-6. Red and blue bricks in irregular bond. From a point 30 metres NW of Beckingham Hall the wall extends 30 metres to the WSW, then 40 metres to the SSE (this section including a gatehouse, listed separately as item 3/106) and then 37 metres to the WNW to join the SW corner of Beckingham Hall. At the S corner a turret forms one side of a formerly arched gateway (arch missing), and another turret 4 metres to the SSE forms the other side, and the wall continues one metre SSE to meet a C19 agricultural building. Turret at W corner. Height of wall approx. 2.50 metres. Chamfered plinth 0.50 metre wide, main part 0.32 metre wide. Dogtooth course on each side supports projecting courses 0.55 metre wide; inclined bricks form a steep V-coping, the edge finished with tile. Approx. 14 metres ENE of the W turret the wall steps down 5 courses to accommodate to the gradient of the site, with a truncated corbelled pinnacle at this point. Similar feature in the SE length. Diaper pattern in blue flared headers on full length of inside, and outside of SW length only, interrupted by blocked wicket immediately NW of gatehouse. The W angle turret is round and hollow, with a doorway having a 4-centred head to the SE; it rises above the wall with a dogtooth course and projecting courses to a steep pinnacle. The turrets of the S gateway have doorways to the N and NE respectively, with 4-centred heads, dogtooth courses and projecting courses, and tapering crenellated parapets. Built for Stephen Beckingham (P. Morant, The History and Antiquities of Essex, 1768, I, 390) and shown in its relationship to the (then) larger house on estate map of 1637 by Samuel Cosin (Essex Record Office, T/M 4/3).
Listing NGR: TL9092811274
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 353211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morant, P, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, (1768), 390
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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