Over Hall
OVER HALL, OVERHALL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306326
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Over Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OVER HALL, OVERHALL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306326
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Over Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVER HALL, OVERHALL HILL
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:
- OVER HALL, OVERHALL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colne Engaine
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86232 30818
Details
TL 83 SE COLNE ENGAINE OVERHALL HILL (south side)
3/23 Over Hall 5.8.86
GV II
House. Early C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with tuck pointing, roofed with slate. Rectangular main block facing W, with 2 service wings to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 4 French windows with some crown glass. First floor, 5 sashes of 12 lights with shallow segmental arches of gauged brick, with original external sliding louvred shutters. Central double half-glazed doors with overlight, Greek Doric portico with triglyph frieze and guttae, and 4 stone steps. 4 plain giant pilasters. Terrace with tented metal canopy on cast iron stanchions. Long overhanging eaves, hipped roof of shallow pitch. The right return has 2 similar French windows, and on the first floor 2 similar sashes (without shutters) and one round window with radial tracery. The interior has 2 original staircases with slender turned balusters, 6-panel door, and numerous original features. A bargain and sale of 1810 records that the property was sold by lsaac Brown and John Share to John Jeremiah Mayhew. An inscription 'NIA 1834' is burned into the wood below the stairs. A slate was found in the roof inscribed 'John White, Earl's Colne, May the 21, 1831, Z. Rogers, J. Newport, Bricklayers'.
Listing NGR: TL8623230818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115872
- 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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