Ridgewell Hall

RIDGEWELL HALL, HALL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122326
Date first listed:
16-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Ridgewell Hall
Statutory Address:
RIDGEWELL HALL, HALL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122326
Date first listed:
16-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Ridgewell Hall
Statutory Address 1:
RIDGEWELL HALL, HALL LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RIDGEWELL HALL, HALL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Ridgewell
National Grid Reference:
TL 73981 40766

Details

TL 74 SW RIDGEWELL HALL LANE 3/44 Ridgewell Hall

II

Manor house, late C17, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 5 bays aligned approx. E-W, aspect N, with one axial chimney stack one bay from the E end. C19 extension to S of W end, forming an L-plan, with one chimney stack at the junction and one axial stack. Single-storey lean-to extension at S end. 2 storeys. The C18 entrance elevation faces N, the C19 entrance elevation faces W. N elevation, near- central 8-panel door with fluted doorcase and bracketed hood, C18. 4 early C18 double-hung sash windows of 16 lights, and one early C19. On first floor, 5 similar early C18 sash windows and one similar C19 sash window. Roof hipped. The S elevation has one similar early C18 sash window. Much crown glass in windows of both periods. The W elevation has a C19 gabled porch with fretted bargeboards. The interior has C18 pine panelling in the E ground floor room, and a recessed half-cylindrical cupboard to S of the adjacent stack. On the first floor, to W of the same stack there is a late C19 cast iron grate with contemporary surround of glazed ornamental tiles, a good relic of its period. Clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL7398140766

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
114141
Legacy System:
LBS

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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