Moze Hall and Attached Front Wall and Railings
MOZE HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, COLCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322647
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moze Hall and Attached Front Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MOZE HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, COLCHESTER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322647
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moze Hall and Attached Front Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOZE HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, COLCHESTER ROAD
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:
- MOZE HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, COLCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ardleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03464 27578
Details
ARDLEIGH OFF COLCHESTER ROAD TM 02 NW
5/10 Moze Hall and attached front wall and railings
GV II
House. C15 with later alterations and additions. Timber framed. C18 red brick faced ground floor and first floor of centre range, this with dentilled eaves cornice, plastered first floors to crosswings. Red plain tiled roof. Hall house with right and left gabled crosswings, chimney stacks to right and left returns and rear of central range. Crosswings originally jettied. Later rear ranges including stair turret by rear chimney stack. First floor 1:2:1 window range of square leaded casements with pightle hinges, those to right and left cross transomed, the central windows 3 light. Ground floor left 2 light, right 3 light similar casements, central 3 light casement under a segmental head. Sun Insurance plaque to first floor. 2 similar windows to return first floor. Door to left of central range, 4 panel 2 light, moulded surround, pediment on brackets. Single storey right lean-to. Internally the hall has an inserted ceiling. Large C16 inglenook fireplace with 3 rear niches with concave head angles. Heavy ceiling and bridging joists and original boards to inserted ceiling. There is a doorway with a square head and a second blocked doorway. Moulded ceiling beams to one room. Original mullions to cross transom windows. Stair turret to side of inglenook, stairs with turned balusters. Most of the first floor frame is covered but visible features are jowled storey posts, halved and bridled top plate scarf and square plan crown post base supported by a tie beam which was formerly arch braced, the crown post arms now hidden by a ceiling. Sooted rafters. Original vertically boarded doors and C17 panelled door. Rear, late C18 kitchen range has a brick fireplace with mantel beam of re-used medieval timber, brick floor. The front wall of red brick extends from the left of the left crosswing to the west and turns south to enclose the front garden where the cast iron C19 railings with ornate arrow heads are supported on a low brick plinth. One of the 4 manors of Ardleigh, sometimes known as More Hall. Philips Bromley, Yeoman lived here 1796. The farm has been surveyed by 3 map-makers, Samuel Cosin, 1636, William Kendall 1736 and Peter le Neve 1806. F.H. Erith "Ardleigh in 1796, 1978. RCHM 10.
Listing NGR: TM0346427578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120355
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922)
Erith, F H, Ardleigh in 1796, (1978)
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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