RIVENSHALL

RIVENSHALL, RAVENS HALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123212
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: RIVENSHALL
Statutory Address:: RIVENSHALL, RAVENS HALL ROAD

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Date:: 2001-10-16
Reference:: IOE01/05845/20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123212
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: RIVENSHALL
Statutory Address 1:: RIVENSHALL, RAVENS HALL ROAD

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:: RIVENSHALL, RAVENS HALL ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
National Grid Reference:: TL 81996 27793

Details

TL 82 NW GREENSTEAD GREEN AND RAVENS HALL ROAD HALSTEAD RURAL (south side)

5/154 Rivenshall (Formerly listed 7.8.52 as Ravenshall Farmhouse)

- II

House. Late C16 and C17, possibly earlier. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Complex plan comprising (1) main range facing SE with axial stack to left of centre, (2) 3-bay range to rear of right end, c.1600, with central stack, (3) C17 rear wing behind middle of main range, with small single-storey lean-to extension beyond, (4) shorter and lower range at left end of main range, with large single-storey lean-to extensions to left, forming a catslide, and to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, one C19 casement, one C20 casement, and one C20 bay. First floor, 2 C19 and 2 C20 casements. Flush 6-panel door with simple pediment head. Roofs hipped. 4 grouped octagonal shafts on each of 2 stacks. Cast iron rainhead. In the right return are 2 C18 3-light windows with rectangular leading, each with a wrought iron casement, and one 2-light window with ovolo mullions, moved from elsewhere. The main range has remnants of an earlier, open hall build and a fragment of an aisle sole plate and octagonal post with moulded capital and base, parts of a former spere truss, and other remnants in an adjoining barn. The SW block is a well-carpentered structure of one storey with original attics, of one long bay between 2 short bays. The middle bay has a full-width ovolo-mullioned window of 6 lights. The structure consists of a series of storey posts with moulded imposts 2/3 of the way up, supporting the bridging beams. The attic, designed to be occupied, has a butt-purlin roof with heavy double collars. The intermediate posts are unjowled. The SE end wall is of interrupted tiebeam design to gain a large attic window. This curious building seems to have been contrived as an independent cottage of markedly original design. At a later date the NE wall of this building was interrupted by the introduction of the western stack. This provided an arched fireplace of 3-centred curvature to the SW, and a fireplace with timber lintel to the NE. RCHM 8.

Listing NGR: TL8199627793

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Legacy System number:: 115992
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.