Gainsford Hall
GAINSFORD HALL, GAINSFORD END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317343
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Gainsford Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GAINSFORD HALL, GAINSFORD END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317343
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Gainsford Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAINSFORD HALL, GAINSFORD END
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:
- GAINSFORD HALL, GAINSFORD END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toppesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 72359 34984
Details
TL 73 SW TOPPESFIELD GAINSFORD END 5/1 Gainsford Hall 21.6.62 II Manor house, C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approx. E-W, aspect N, with axial chimney stack at W end, and C18 external chimney stack to rear of second bay from E end. 3-bay E crosswing extending to S, with C18 internal chimney stack, and single-storey extension with catslide roof in SW angle. 3-bay W crosswing extending to N, with internal chimney stack against W wall, now terminating below roof level, and roof re-aligned E-W. Long ancillary building extending to N of this with many medieval features, weatherboarded. 2 storeys. Half- glazed door in C19 gabled porch with fretted bargeboards. 3 double-hung sash windows of 16 lights on ground floor and 5 on first floor, late C18. Exposed high collar and purlin ends on gable of E crosswing. The E crosswing has an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the W wallplate, cranked braces to the collar, and an original E ground-floor window of 3 closely-spaced moulded mullions retaining original ochre paint. The main range originally had a chimney stack in the short E bay, but this was removed in the C18. It has plain-chamfered beams and joists of horizontal section with step stops, and 2 front ground-floor windows each with 2 moulded mullions and mortices for stiffening bars. On the first floor there is an unglazed rear window with 3 diamond mullions. The wallplate scarfs are of a type not previously recorded, face-halved, housed at both ends, and there is a crownpost roof with plain posts and thin axial braces. The W wing has plain-chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and joists of horizontal section with die-away stops.
Listing NGR: TL7235934984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114503
- 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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