Widdington Hall
WIDDINGTON HALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238373
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Widdington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WIDDINGTON HALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238373
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Widdington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIDDINGTON HALL, CHURCH STREET
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:
- WIDDINGTON HALL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widdington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54137 31764
Details
WIDDINGTON CHURCH STREET 1. 5222 Widdington Hall TL 5431 42/807 26.11.51
II
2. C15 moated hall house considerably altered in the C16 when a long 5 bay wing was added to the north, making an L-shaped plan. The south front of the main block has 3 gables of unequal size and a modern gabled porch. The north wing, now used as a barn, has a red brick wall with black brick diapering on the west side and has a timber-framed and plastered east wall, with a weather-boarded base. On the west side there is part of a brick crowstepped gable with a chimney stack behind it. To the west of this there is an early C17 wing with a small staircase projection at the west end. The windows are modern casements. Roofs tiled, with a large square internal chimney stack to the main block. The interior has the original doorway from the former hall to the buttery wing and there is an open fireplace in the west wall of the present kitchen. There is a considerable amount of original roof construction. Only part of the moat now remains. (RCHM 3).
Listing NGR: TL5413731764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415864
- 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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