Old Shenfield Place
OLD SHENFIELD PLACE, HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297232
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Old Shenfield Place
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SHENFIELD PLACE, HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297232
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Old Shenfield Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SHENFIELD PLACE, HALL LANE
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:
- OLD SHENFIELD PLACE, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 60578 94873
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ69SW HALL LANE, Shenfield 723-1/9/271 (West side) 21/10/58 Old Shenfield Place (Formerly Listed as: HALL LANE, Shenfield Shenfield Place)
GV II
Formerly known as: Old Shenfield Place ROMAN ROAD. House, now residential institution. 1689 and early C18, extended in C20. By Robert Hooke. Red brick in English bond, and some Flemish, partly stuccoed, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Rectangular main block facing SE, with 2 external stacks on each side. Rear wing incorporated in larger rear extension under construction at time of inspection, July 1989. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellars and attics. C20 single-storey extensions to right and rear right. Ground floor, five C19 sashes of 4 lights with moulded plaster architraves. First floor, 5 similar sashes. Cellar, 3 casements with segmental arches. Attic, two C20 casements in gabled dormers with moulded pediments. The front elevation is stuccoed and ashlared, extending round the right return to the first stack, and round the left return on the first floor, where a single-storey extension, probably a conservatory, has been demolished. Band at first-floor level. Moulded and modillioned eaves cornice. Hipped roof. The right elevation has on the first floor 2 blocked apertures, and a similar band and eaves cornice. To the rear of the rear stack is an early C18 sash of 4+4 lights on each floor; 2 similar sashes round the corner in the rear elevation. The left elevation has on the ground floor three C19 sashes of 4-lights, and French windows; and on the first floor two C19 sashes of 6-lights and 2 blocked apertures. Two C20 casements in large gabled dormer with moulded pediment. Similar eaves cornice. C20 glazed door in hipped extension to right. Some Flemish bond in rear elevation and rear wing. INTERIOR: all the ground floor interiors have original or early C18 moulded pine panelling, moulded cornices, and bolection-moulded fireplaces. Semi-elliptical arch between entrance-hall at right, and stair to rear centre. The early C18 stair is of 2 flights, with moulded closed strings, twist-turned balusters, and moulded pine handrail; 3 plain balusters at top. Some early C18 folding shutters and handmade glass in the early C18 sashes already noted. One first-floor room to rear left has panelling, cornices and fireplace similar to those on the ground floor, but is now divided by an inserted partition. The cellar has chamfered oak beams with lamb's tongue stops and 2 early doors with altered hinges. Shown as Shenfield Place on Chapman and Andre's road map of 1777, and as Mr Wheatley's house in J Cary, Survey of the High Roads from London. (Cary J: Survey of the High Roads from London: 1790-; Morant P: The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex: 1768-: 194).
Listing NGR: TQ6057894873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373448
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morant, P, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, (1768), 194
Cary, , Survey of the High Roads from London, (1790)
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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