Rook Hall
ROOK HALL, HOLLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170991
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rook Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ROOK HALL, HOLLOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170991
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rook Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOK HALL, HOLLOW 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:
- ROOK HALL, HOLLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 83994 19331
Details
KELVEDON HOLLOW ROAD TL 81 NW (north side)
5/234 Rook Hall
- II
House. Circa 1600, extended in C17, C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2 bays aligned NW-SE, with external stack at each end. C17 one-bay extension to SE, C18 one-bay extension to NW. C20 extensions to NE. 2 storeys with attics. SW elevation, 3 C20 casements on ground floor, 2 on first floor. C20 French windows. The right extension, originally of one storey, has been raised approx. 0.5 metre to match the left extension, both now of one storey with attics, in gambrel roofs. Jowled posts. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of approximately square section. Large wood-burning hearth to right with sides of 0.33 metre brickwork, original. Smaller C18/19 hearth at left. Primary straight bracing exposed internally in left extension.
Listing NGR: TL8399419331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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