Woodhill House
WOODHILL HOUSE, WOODHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235881
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhill House
- Statutory Address:
- WOODHILL HOUSE, WOODHILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235881
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODHILL HOUSE, WOODHILL 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:
- WOODHILL HOUSE, WOODHILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Danbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76785 04548
Details
SANDON WOODhILL ROAD 1. 5213 Woodhill House TL 70 SE 14/480 10.4.67. II
2. A Cl8 brick house with extensive later C18, mid Cl9 and late C19 extensions on the north and south ends. All the variously dated extensions are built in a similar style, The main block is of red and blue brick with a parapet, a dentilled cornice between the lst and 2nd storeys and a raised band between the ground and 1st storeys. 5 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in flush cased frames, with segmental heads. The doorway has a 6-panel door with a semi-circular fanlight with fan glazing bars and a Tuscan doorcase with plain columns and a modillion pediment. The roof of the main block is tiled, hipped at the north and south ends. On the north of the main block is a small 2 storeyed wing of 1 window range with a parapet and a Dutch gable on the west and east fronts, On the west front the gable has a circular panel with the initials S C C above the date 1798. It is said to have been built by Samuel Charles Carne as an officers mess in the napoleonic Wars. On the lst storey there is a 5-light lunette and on the ground storey a Venetian window set in an arched recess. The dentilled cornice and raised brick band which run between the storeys of the main block are darned across the wings to the north and south. To the south of the main block is a 2 storeyed wing of similar design to that on the north but with the Initials F C R above the date 1868 in the Dutch gable on the west front. A late C19 block was added to the south of this, with a small wing of 1 window range on each fade projecting on the west front at the north end and a block of 4 window range with a 3-light semi-circular headed window under a Dutch gable at the south end, with the initials K A R above the date 1893. Roofs tiled.
Listing NGR: TL7678504548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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