Bower Hall
BOWER HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277155
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Bower Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BOWER HALL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12211/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277155
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Bower Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWER HALL
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:
- BOWER HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pentlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 80012 45491
Details
TL 84 NE PENTLOW BOWER HALL 2/181 Bower hall 21.6.62 GV II
House. Circa 1600 with later additions and C20 alterations. Exposed timber frame of 3 bays with long wall jetty to front. Cedar tiled roof. 2 storeys. 3 window range of C20 casements including central ground floor leaded light bay. External red brick chimney stack to right and left. Rear red brick chimney stack with some original brickwork. The C20 fireplace to this stack has an ornately carved Jacobean mantlepiece which may have come from elsewhere. C20 single storey flat roofed extension to left. RCHM 3.
Listing NGR: TL8001245491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407602
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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