Round Hill House
ROUND HILL HOUSE, LAMARSH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122858
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Round Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- ROUND HILL HOUSE, LAMARSH HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122858
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Round Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROUND HILL HOUSE, LAMARSH HILL
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:
- ROUND HILL HOUSE, LAMARSH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamarsh
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 88573 36834
Details
LAMARSH LAMARSH HILL TL 83 NE (west side) 2/74 (25/539) Round Hill House (formerly listed as House on 21.6.62 Lamarsh Hill opposite The Chalet) GV II* House. Early C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing at front, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range facing NE, shortened by approx. 1 metre at right end, and 2-bay crosswing at left, with internal chimney stack at junction. C20 single-storey extension behind right end, and lean-to extension behind main range. C20 porch on right end. 2 storeys. Continuous jetty with 4 plain brackets, all joists exposed, and moulded bressumer. 2 of the posts have semi-octagonal attached shafts with moulded capitals. Exposed studding above jetty with 'Suffolk' bracing trenched to the outside. Moulded bargeboards on crosswing gable. 4 C20 casement windows on ground floor, 3 on first floor. Roof hipped at right. The interior has exposed framing throughout, moulded beams and joists above all ground floor rooms, with foliate carved stops on the beam of the crosswing. 2 moulded mantel beams. Doorway to the crosswing with 4-centred arched head. Cranked braces to tiebeams of main range. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Both roofs are of crownpost construction. In the main range there has been some reconstruction where the right end has been shortened. In the crosswing a short crownpost with axial braces is mounted on a half-height collar, a rare construction in Essex. RCHM 4.
Listing NGR: TL8857336834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114870
- 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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