BERWICK HALL

BERWICK HALL, THE CAUSEWAY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122992
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: BERWICK HALL
Statutory Address:: BERWICK HALL, THE CAUSEWAY

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Date:: 2003-01-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1122992
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: BERWICK HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BERWICK HALL, THE CAUSEWAY

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:: BERWICK HALL, THE CAUSEWAY

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Toppesfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 73551 37241

Details

TL 7337 TOPPESFIELD THE CAUSEWAY, West Side 6/4 Berwick Hall 7.8.1952 GV II House, early C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned N-S, aspect E, with 2 internal rear chimney stacks, and rear wing from S bay, forming an L-plan, with internal chimney stack at the junction, and C18/19 extension beyond, with internal chimney stack. C18 extension to rear of main range, forming 3 gables to W, and small 2-storey extension in the angle. 2 storeys and unlit attic in main building, single storey with attics in most westerly extension. French window and 3 tripartite double-hung sash windows on ground floor, 4 on first floor, all late C19. Roof hipped to N andS. S chimney stack has recessed panel, now blank, reported by the RCHM to have formerly contained an inscribed date 1635. In upper W elevation, one C18 window of 3 fixed lights. The interior has beam with lamb's tongue and bar stops, and half-height jowls on the storey posts with decorative serrated fringes, original. One beam is elaborately carved with a foliate design. The staircase has fretted flat balusters, mainly original, with some reproduction work. Clasped purlin roof with original rebated floor boards and original partitions of wattle and daub in attic. Moated site. RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL7355137241

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Legacy System number:: 114489
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.