PRESTED HALL

PRESTED HALL, PRESTED HALL CHASE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169450
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: PRESTED HALL
Statutory Address:: PRESTED HALL, PRESTED HALL CHASE

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Date:: 2003-03-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169450
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: PRESTED HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PRESTED HALL, PRESTED HALL CHASE

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:: PRESTED HALL, PRESTED HALL CHASE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Feering
National Grid Reference:: TL 88306 19629

Details

FEERING PRESTED HALL CHASE TL 81 NE

6/109 Prested Hall

- II

House, now an institution. C14-C17, altered in C19 and extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Complex plan comprising a hall aligned approx. E-W, possibly aisled originally, OS, and C16 and C17 extension to the S, with an internal stack at the S end. Large C20 extensions to N, E and S, incorporating the historic structure in a larger building used from 1934 as a nursing home, later as a residential institution. Standing empty at time of survey, October 1986. 2 storeys with attics. Present entrance elevation to N, 5 C20 casements with rectangular leading on ground floor, 6 on first floor, 2 on attic floor. C20 double half-glazed doors with sidelights. Carved inscription over door, dated 1934. The W elevation of the historic structure comprises 2 gabled wings with a narrow gabled wing between them; scattered fenestration, C19 and C20; 6-panel door, the top 4 panels glazed, in C20 gabled porch; date 1527 painted on plaster. Jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the inside, steeply cambered tiebeam over hall with 2 solid angle-braces, chamfered axial and transverse beams, plain joists of horizontal section, large wood-burning hearth facing N, clasped purlin roofs. Early C17 oak panelling and C20 reproduction work. The wall framing is much concealed by C20 interior finishes. Moated site. RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL8830619629

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Legacy System number:: 116430
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.