Brent Hall
BRENT HALL, BRENT HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122720
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Brent Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BRENT HALL, BRENT HALL ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07268/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122720
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Brent Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRENT HALL, BRENT HALL 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:
- BRENT HALL, BRENT HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finchingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67566 33105
Details
TL 63 SE FINCHINGFIELD BRENT HALL ROAD (north side)
3/4 Brent Hall 2.5.53 - II
House. Early C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with facade of red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing S, with original external stack on right return wall, and C18/C19 axial stack left of centre. Rear wing of 3/4 bays from left side, with original external stack at right side. C18 extension in rear angle, the roof parallel to that of the main range, and single-storey lean-to extension in angle behind it. C20 single-storey extension to left of rear end. 2 storeys. 2-window range of C18/early C19 sashes of 20 lights, the lower ones with hood moulds. Both original stacks are in English bond with grouped diagonal shafts, the front one rebuilt at the top. The front range has chamfered transverse beams with stops of unusual type, broached with the points squared off. In the right upper front room there is a hearth with depressed arch, plastered. The mantel beam of the rear stack is chamfered with lamb's tongue and bar stops. Jowled posts. The walls of the rear wing have been raised approx. 1.5 metres in the C18. There are historical records that Brent Hall was destroyed by fire in 1652, but it is difficult to reconcile this information with the stylistic evidence of construction in the early part of the C17; presumably the destruction was not total, which way account for the unusual plan. RCHM 12.
Listing NGR: TL6756633105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115148
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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