Bois Hall

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TQ59NE DUDBROOK ROAD 723-1/5/488 (South side) 27/08/52 Bois Hall (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD DUDBROOK ROAD, Navestock Bois Hall)

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House. Late C17/early C18. Red brick, Flemish bond with remains of tuck pointing, roof peg-tiled. EXTERIOR: flat gauged brick arches over windows, moulded cornice, plinth and string course. 2 storey and attics concealed behind parapet. 1:3:1 window range, flush sashes with glazing bars, 12 panes. Central range articulated with a 3-light first-floor window over a Tuscan pillared porch with dentilled cornice. Door with 6 panels, upper 4 sunk, lower 2 flush. Screen walls with shaped coping project at each side. Wall to left curved from house down to simple gateway with square piers (C20 iron gate). Ends of screen walls terminate in small red brick outbuildings with hipped tiled roofs and dentilled eaves cornices (now used as garages). The house was L-shaped but the rear SE range has been truncated and the back of the house rebuilt in 1953 revealing a double gabled roof and leaving 2 pilasters, one on each side at the point of truncation. The NE elevation is of the same type as the facade but a straight joint in the brickwork at the N corner suggests 2 building phases (successively replacing an earlier structure?). The windows on the NE show replacement with horned sashes and a C20 casement. The SW angle of the house shows the junction of the 2 wings and in the internal angle a large stack projecting externally is built at the rear of the front block. INTERIOR: much altered but one bedroom has C18 pine fielded panelling with a dentilled cornice. Attic stair has barleysugar banisters and moulded handrail c1700. The N front once had 2 moulded rainwater heads with the arms and crests of Greene and the date 1687 (RCHM) These have been removed and replaced by plain ones in the course of extensive restoration 1974-9. The house is shown in a painting of 1636 in Essex Record Office as a double cranked building with Dutch gabled attics and mullioned and transomed windows. Old ruined garden wall remains to SE of house but it is not possible to relate this to the picture. At roof level the house is tied together by many C20 steel rods which may indicate that it had been rebuilt incorporating parts of an earlier structure. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 6: 193; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Essex: 1965-: 304; Morant P: The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex: 1768-: 183).

Listing NGR: TQ5561898242

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