CUST HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317406
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
List Entry Name:: CUST HALL
Statutory Address:: CUST HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317406
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
List Entry Name:: CUST HALL
Statutory Address 1:: CUST HALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CUST HALL

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 73634 36424

Details

TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD 3/1 Cust Hall 21.6.62

II

House, mainly C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, partly plastered, partly with exposed framing, partly clad with painted brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approx. N-S, aspect E, with external chimney stacks to N and W, and internal chimney stack in S bay. To NW of it, 3 bays aligned E-W, with internal chimney stack between W bay and middle bays. Small building in NE angle, connecting the 2 ranges. W extension at S end, C19, and stair tower in the NW angle. Single-storey lean-to extensions to W of main range, C19. 2 storeys with attics. E elevation jettied with 3 exposed plain brackets, underbuilt in S bay, all plastered. Plain boarded door and 2-window range of tripartite sashes of 2-4-2 lights, late C19. In connecting block, one double-hung sash window of 16 lights on ground floor, one of 6 lights on first floor, both late C18/early C19. The N elevation is jettied with exposed joists and studding, underbuilt in the E bay only. The N-S range has richly moulded transverse and axial beams and joists, exposed studding with C20 alterations, rear hearth rebuilt in the C20. The roof was of crownpost construction originally, rebuilt in clasped purlin form. It has been dismantled from another site and re-assembled here with some differences, and appears to be a guildhall or other public building of c.1500, originally with at least 3 bays undivided on each floor, re-erected as a domestic building in the second half of the C16. The E-W range is plain, narrower in span, and original on this site. RCHM 4.

Listing NGR: TL7363436424

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 114481
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.