Birdbrook Hall
BIRDBROOK HALL, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122348
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Birdbrook Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BIRDBROOK HALL, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122348
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Birdbrook Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRDBROOK HALL, THE STREET
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:
- BIRDBROOK HALL, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Birdbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70707 41190
Details
TL 74 SW BIRDBROOK THE STREET, 3/18 WEST SIDE Birdbrook Hall 21/6/62 GV II
Manor house, late C16, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered with some painted brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range aligned NW-SE with axial chimney stack. Crosswing at SE end, extending to the SW, with 2 external chimney stacks on NW wall. Stair tower in W angle. NE wall of main range advanced approx. 3 metres in C18, and rebuilt in brick, painted, enclosing one of the 2 external stacks and converting an irregular T- plan to an L-plan. NW crosswing of brick, painted, C19, with one external chimney stack, and single-storey lean-to extension to NW, enclosing the stack, C19. 2 storeys. SE elevation, central door with 6 fielded panels in Tuscan porch, C18. 3 tripartite double-hung sash windows of 2-4-2 lights, late C19. First floor, 2 similar windows and 2 double-hung sash windows of 16 lights, early C19, with some crown glass. Wooden parapet. SE elevation has one early C18 window of 2 fixed lights and one wrought iron casement in hardwood frame, with rectangular leaded glass. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts. In SE crosswing 3 transverse moulded beams, one double ogee with converging stops, the others ovolo with lamb's tongue stops. Cellar with late C16 floor over. Roof of clasped purlin construction with re-used rafters and steeply cambered tiebeam from a medieval roof, probably from a hall house on the same site. The NE pitch of the original roof is present within the lower pitch of roof built over the C18 extension.
Listing NGR: TL7070741190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114090
- 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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