Shingle Hall
SHINGLE HALL, ONGAR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334872
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shingle Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHINGLE HALL, ONGAR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334872
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shingle Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHINGLE HALL, ONGAR 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:
- SHINGLE HALL, ONGAR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Dunmow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62489 20895
Details
TL 62 SW GREAT DUNMOW ONGAR ROAD 3/85 (North Side) Shingle Hall II
House, former Manor House. C.1400 and late C19. Part timber framed but encased and extended in gault brick. Roofs are a mixture of clay peg tiles and Welsh slates. Complex plan form with 2 parallel ranges cited north/south with return block across north end and projecting wing on west front. Roofs are all gabled with fretted bargeboards. East front has 3 bay block with double hung sashes with segmented heads and single vertical glazing bar, 3 gabled domes, and dentilled cornice and central porch. Beyond, to the north, is a gabled block. with projecting single storey extension with balustered roof terrace. The east front has a mixture of double hung sash windows with small panes and C19 casements with plain upper lights, small panes and hexagonal upper panes. On the west elevation is a partly exposed late C18 doorcase with low pitched pediment on scroll brackets with pendant mutules and contemporary 8 panelled door, all within the Cl9 segmented headed arch topped recess. The interior contains the 'low' end bay of a first floor hall of c.l400 and additional service bay over a timber framed 'undercroft'. The floor of this is supported on a spine beam with sanson posts with heavy arch bracing. The crown post roof with moulded capital and base of central crown post survives complete. To the south of this is a C17 range with re-used, soot blackened rafters and C17 panelled room on ground floor, The eastern range is also timber framed of probably the late C17 to early C18.
Listing NGR: TL6248920895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353373
- 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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