STONDON PLACE

STONDON PLACE, CHIVERS ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197346
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: STONDON PLACE
Statutory Address:: STONDON PLACE, CHIVERS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197346
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: STONDON PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: STONDON PLACE, CHIVERS ROAD

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:: STONDON PLACE, CHIVERS ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Stondon Massey
National Grid Reference:: TL 57742 00524

Details

STONDON MASSEY

TL50SE CHIVERS ROAD 723-1/1/537 (South side) 20/02/76 Stondon Place (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD CHIVERS ROAD, Stondon Massey Stondon Place)

II

House. 1706, rebuilt after a fire of 1877, reputedly with the old material. For Richard How. Red brick, Flemish bond, peg-tile roof. L-plan. 2 storeys. S front to garden has 2 outer semicircular brick bays and plain central section between. Plain string courses over each storey and simple parapet. 9 bays in 3:3:3 grouping. All windows straight headed with gauged brick voussoirs and a key stone. Front doorway similar to windows with French door, each leaf of 3 panes. 2 light rectangular fan light. 2 stacks, one to E of centre and one on E gable end of E elevation (now principal entrance). Gable end of S front with right angled block to N (2 storey). Brick door porch at junction of blocks, flat topped with parapet and cornice clasping corner buttresses and pilasters `in antis'. Cyma and torus mouldings. Doorway - 3 light fanlight and 6 panelled door, upper 4 recessed, lower 2 flush. Fixed lights, 2x4 panes on N and S sides of porch. To S of porch, one window as on S front (3x4 panes). To N of porch narrow window ,sash, glazing bars, 1x4 panes, also 2 windows, sashes, glazing bars, 3x4 panes. First floor 3 similar windows. Gable end stack to S with recessed panel, also central stack in N wing. W elevation to rear garden, irregular, with 2 gable ends to N with central brick roundels. Ground floor French window with 3 lights to each leaf, 2-light fan-light, also tripartite window with sashes, glazing bars, 1x4 panes, 2x4 panes, 1x4 panes. First floor (over window and door) semicircular oriel window on brick corbel, 3 lights, sashes with glazing bars, each light 2x4 panes. INTERIOR contains some C18 style fireplaces. Stondon Place was the home of the famous musician, William Byrd between 1593 and his death in 1623. He lived in a house on the site which was replaced in 1706. Byrd was a recusant and was buried in Stondon Massey church (qv) nearby. The Georgian house became the second manor house of Stondon Massey after Stondon Hall (qv) became a farmhouse and remained as such until 1861.

Listing NGR: TL5774200524

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Legacy System number:: 373806
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.