ROUND HILL HOUSE

ROUND HILL HOUSE, LAMARSH HILL

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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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Date:: 2001-08-18
Reference:: IOE01/05044/12
Rights:: © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROUND HILL HOUSE, LAMARSH HILL

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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

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Legacy System number:: 114870
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.