Boyton Hall Farmhouse
BOYTON HALL FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123485
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Boyton Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOYTON HALL FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123485
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Boyton Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOYTON HALL FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD 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:
- BOYTON HALL FARMHOUSE, TOPPESFIELD 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 70695 33989
Details
TL 73 SW FINCHINGFIELD TOPPESFIELD ROAD (south side)
4/92 Boyton Hall Farmhouse 2.5.53 (Formerly listed as Boyton Hall) GV II
House. Mid-C16, altered c.1600 and in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 5 bays facing NW, with axial stack at left end, and 3-bay crosswing beyond, extending to rear, c.1600. Stair tower in rear angle, c.1600. Single-storey extension to left of crosswing, C20. Main range of 2 storeys, crosswing of 2 storeys and attic. 3-window range of C20 casements. Door in gabled porch, C20. 6 octagonal shafts on main stack, rebuilt at top (serving 4 hearths). Original bargeboards on left gable, with carved guilloche design. The interior has jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the inside, the original main doorway with 4-centred head, blocked, chamfered beams, chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops. The ground-floor hearth facing to right has ovolo-moulded brickwork above the mantel beam, originally plastered but now stripped, a trace of a former painted text in C16 lettering, and some new brickwork. At first floor there are 2 hearths with depressed arches and recessed spandrels, one still with the original moulded plaster, the other stripped, and a moulded 4-plank door, all c.1600. The stair tower retains the original stair, with 2 octagonal newels and square finials, moulded rails, and moulded straight balusters of unusual type. The roof of the main range is of crownpost construction with thin axial braces, the crosswing of clasped purlin construction. This house was built from the outset in 2 storeys but of medieval plan, with a wide screens passage, 2-bay 'hall' and 2-bay service end, but has developed in an untypical way in that a stack has been inserted at the high end, forming a lobby-entrance, and the 3-bay crosswing has replaced the original parlour/solar bay. Moated site. RCHM 6.
Listing NGR: TL7069533989
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115234
- 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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