Stisted Hall

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TL 7924 STISTED

7/254 Stisted Hall

GV II*

Mansion, now a residential institution. 1823-5, by Henry Hakewill for Charles Savill Onley (né Harvey). Gault brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings, roofed with slate and lead. Rectangular plan with short entrance elevation to W, long garden elevation to S, large service range to NE. 5 internal stacks symmetrically arranged. 2 storeys and cellars. Ground floor, 2 outer tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights with scalloped blind boxes, 2 inner sashes of 12 lights. First floor, 5 sashes of 12 lights with moulded stone architraves. Much crown glass in large panes, meriting special care. Central double late C19 hardwood doors with moulded stone canopy on scrolled brackets. Central part of elevation set back. Large tetrastyle Ionic portico with ceiling of transparent corrugated plastic on web steel joists. Plain stone band. Dentilled stone parapet, concealing roofs of shallow pitch. Garden elevation, 2:5:2 window range. On the ground floor, outer tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights with scalloped blind boxes, inner sashes of 12 lights of storey height. On the first floor the left outer sash of 12 lights has a blind box, the other is missing. Much crown glass. The middle part of the ground floor has been altered to stand forward on a terrace raised on one step, with 3 stone steps to each window. The entrance-hall has a painted wooden fireplace, 6 internal late C19 moulded 4-panel doors of polished hardwood in painted moulded architraves with carved crestings, an original floor of limestone with inset squares of slate, and a moulded plaster cornice. The SW 'Oak Room' has C19 oak panelling and a coved ceiling. The dining-room, to the E of it, has walls of panelled plaster, 2 niches with shell heads, and a moulded plaster cornice. The next room to the E has walls of panelled plaster and a moulded cornice with Greek key and honeysuckle ornament. The SE room ('the Cedar Room') has panelled plaster walls, 2 arched niches and a moulded plaster cornice, and a fireplace of green marble, all late C19. The stair hall, N of the dining-room, has a branching central stair with moulded stone treads, slender cast iron balusters of lotus and scroll design, and wreathed handrails, 2 freestanding Ionic columns, a curved rear wall with moulded plaster band, a cylindrical lantern with shallow dome, and scrolled, coffered and moulded ceiling. Cellars with original fittings. The house is illustrated as having a tented canopy on stanchions in the position of the present S extension in Virtue's Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain, 1832, 55, and Country Life (supplement, sale advertisement), 18 July 1914. The architectural supervision was by John Penrice of Colchester, to a design by Henry Hakewill ( H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, 1978, 376 and 631). The Provisional List states that the house is 'said to contain C16/17 panelling from Jenkin's Farmhouse', but the only panelling found is C19, original to its present position.

Listing NGR: TL7951224667

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Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 376, 631
Virtue, , Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain, (1833), 55
Country Life in 18 July, (1914)

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