Brizes Park, Bell House School
BRIZES PARK, BELL HOUSE SCHOOL, ONGAR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197313
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Brizes Park, Bell House School
- Statutory Address:
- BRIZES PARK, BELL HOUSE SCHOOL, ONGAR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197313
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Brizes Park, Bell House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIZES PARK, BELL HOUSE SCHOOL, ONGAR 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:
- BRIZES PARK, BELL HOUSE SCHOOL, ONGAR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon Hatch
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 56986 98402
Details
KELVEDON HATCH
TQ59NE ONGAR ROAD 723-1/5/440 (West side) 20/02/67 Brizes Park, Bell House School (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD ONGAR ROAD, Kelvedon Hatch Brizes)
GV II
House. C18 said to have been started in 1720, remodelled in late C18, C19 and C20. Converted to a school in 1981. Red brick, slate roof. L-plan with service/stable extensions as rear projecting wings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. SW front, 9 bays, 2 simple stuccoed string courses over ground and first floors, plain parapet. All windows, real or blind, have gauged brick voussoirs. Central 3 bays section articulates forwards with a pediment with lunate depressed arch above the parapet. Ground floor with central porch, Tuscan, tetrastyle with flat head. Doorway, semicircular, 'cobweb' fan-light and 6-panelled door. 4 windows each side, C20 restored, sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. First floor, central niche with stuccoed key stone and 4 windows each side as before. Second storey - blind central window, 4 windows each side, each sash with glazing bars, 3x2 panes. SE side elevation, 3 fold division. Central part articulated forward with full height arched recess containing large tripartite sash windows with glazing bars on each floor. Ground-floor window flat headed, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes, first floor, segment headed, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes, second floor lunate 'Diocletian' window, 1x2, 3x4, 1x2 panes. To SW end (towards front of house) 2 bays, all windows blind. NE end, ground and first-floor windows sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, second floor, 3x2 panes. NW side elevation 6 bays, 3 fold division, centre section articulated forward. Plain sash windows with glazing bars. Ground and first floors 3x4 panes, 2nd floor 3x2 panes. First and second floor windows SW end blind. Set back service/stable wings have 2 blind arcades with stuccoed key stones and impost blocks presented to the SW front and hipped roofs. S wing C20, flat tiles, N wing slate. INTERIOR: entrance hall with bucrania frieze and Venetian triple arch with coupled columns leading to staircase of imperial type. Stair lit by window with semicircular head, painted glass and hunting figures in C17 costume, said to be imported c1880. Several rooms have late C18 style fireplaces and friezes. The house was bought in 1949 by Hon. Simon Rodney who did much to restore the house to its Georgian appearance. It was frequently visited by Sir Winston Churchill. The stable block and garden wall (qv) form a group with Brizes Park. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Essex: 1965-: 256).
Listing NGR: TQ5698698402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 256
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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