BEACHAMPTON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1214834
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: BEACHAMPTON HALL
Statutory Address:: BEACHAMPTON HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1214834
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: BEACHAMPTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BEACHAMPTON HALL

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:: BEACHAMPTON HALL

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District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Beachampton
National Grid Reference:: SP 77052 37356

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/01/2013

SP 73 NE 4/36 25.9.51

BEACHAMPTON Beachampton Hall (Formerly listed as Hall Farmhouse)

GV II*

Large house, on site of Medieval manor. Late C15, altered early C16. Oolitic limestone, with plain clay tiled roofs between raised coped gables. Brick stacks. Plan: North-south range containing reception rooms, with a cross-wing extending west at the north end, and a disused cross-wing containing the great chamber extending east at the southern end, in all forming a 'Z' plan. The great hall, probably late Medieval, south of south wing demolished in C18, its remains incorporated in a garden building. Two storeys throughout, with attics to south wing. Hollow chamfered stone mullion windows with label heads to ground floor, the windows transomed to the south wing and to the east gable of the north wing. Canted bay with mullioned and transomed window to great chamber. Two early C19 timber windows on west elevation of centre block. C19 door with timber canopy. C20 glazed porch in re-entrant angle of north wing.

Interior: The south wing containing the rebuilt early C17 chamber is raised on an undercroft, and accessed by an extravagantly carved stair, largely removed in 1922. The panelling of chamber, described in early C19, is now missing but some standard C17 oak panelling remains. The chamber has a moulded stone fireplace, and evidence of an external perron stair on the north side. There are two similar fireplaces on first floor with a further one in attic. Many boldly moulded doorcases and panelled early C17 lead studded doors, and an earlier room encapsulated in the rebuild with heavily moulded ceiling.

The surviving house was probably built by the Piggot family,the great chamber rebuilt probably by Sir Thomas Piggot between 1603-11, possibly for the reception of Queen Anne of Denmark and her entourage in July 1603, when the gardens were also laid out. The house is remarkably unaltered in the C19 and C20, and, together with the summerhouse and the barn, the garden remains with the listed gate-piers, form a largely unaltered manorial group.

Listing NGR: SP7705237356

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Legacy System number:: 399771
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.