Elmstead Hall
ELMSTEAD HALL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1146647
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Elmstead Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ELMSTEAD HALL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1146647
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Elmstead Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELMSTEAD HALL, CHURCH 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:
- ELMSTEAD HALL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06423 26001
Details
TM 02 NE ELMSTEAD CHURCH ROAD
3/3 Elmstead Hall 21/2/50 GV II*
House. C15 and C16 of earlier origin with later alterations and additions. Timber framed and plastered. Red plain tiled roofs, projecting eaves cornices. 2 repaired C16 red brick attached diagonal shaft chimney stacks, forward off centre right stack and plastered left end stack. Original bargeboards to end and rear gables. 2 storeys and attics. Central hall with crosswings to right and left. Rear wings including stair turret. 2:4:2 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. Central 6 -panelled door, moulded surround, flat canopy on brackets, bargeboards and band to gables. Internal features include large good quality C16 frame incorporating an earlier, possibly C15, formerly jettied east crosswing. Jowled storey posts, halved and bridled scarf joints and very deep section floor joists. Good quality wind braced side purlin roof, with double wall plates and interrupted tie beams for attic headroom. Solid tread staircase to attics, C17 and C18 panelling, the room above the hall with fluted pilasters and moulded cornice. Original doorways with 4 centred heads, sunk spandrels and carved stops. 2 blocked windows with moulded mullions and transoms. Several C16 and C17 doors. C18 corner cupboard with strapwork pilasters and shell hood to ground floor. In the attic but not in-situ are several C17/C18 iron windows with swan neck catches, also a C19 cast iron fire surround with tiled sides. The present occupier has photographs of original wall paintings of grotesques, discovered by Mrs. Mitchell, 1928, which are said to survive behind a wall panel. There is a copy of part of the design and an article giving a date circa 1560 by G. Montague-Benton, Transactions, Essex Archaeological Society Vol. XXI Part I. RCHM 3.
Listing NGR: TM0642326001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120057
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922)
Benton Montague, G, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society: Part 1, Vol. 21, ()
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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