The Quarters
THE QUARTERS, FORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337178
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Quarters
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUARTERS, FORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337178
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Quarters
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE QUARTERS, FORD LANE
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:
- THE QUARTERS, FORD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alresford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 07215 20124
Details
ALRESFORD OFF FORD LANE TM 02 SE (east side) 3/4 ALRESFORD PARK
21.2.50 The Quarters (formerly listed as Alresford Hall Quarters Cottage with Dovecote)
GV II*
Formerly a chinoiserie fishing lodge or lakeside summer house. Circa 1772 by Richard Wood, converted to a house circa 1951 with an added gable to north. Probably of brick, rough rendered. Grey slate double range roofs to left gables, copper felt to central single storey and right dome. The left ranges with moulded bargeboards to gables. The 2 north gabled bays of 2 storeys, single storey centre range and square plan lakeside range, this with octagonal interior. 2 window range to entrance face (north) of small paned vertically sliding sashes, central 6 panelled door, moulded surround, flat canopy. West face 2 ground floor Chinese keyhole small paned vertically sliding sashes, moulded surrounds. 4 first floor small paned casements to left double gables. The central range with open porch supported by 2 stone fluted columns, left small paned vertically sliding sash window, right half glazed door. The right square plan range has octagonal inner walls, keyhole windows to west, south and east faces, concave broaching to concave octagonal dome of 2 stages. Weathervane finial. Trellised verandah with concave hipped roof to lakeside (south) face. Similar features to east face. Interior, the octagonal walls of the dome with alternate windows and tall niches. Moulded dados, wainscots and ceiling cornices. 6 panelled doors with brass furniture and moulded architraves to all rooms. Chamfered bridging joists to central and left ranges, these with similar doors, dados, cornices etc., as dome. Name derived from reputation that Cromwellian troops were quartered in the grounds. A painting by Constable circa 1816, now said to hang in Melbourne, Australia. N. Scarfe Shell Guide to Essex 1975. Lucinda Lambton Beastly Buildings, 1985.
Listing NGR: TM0721520124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120138
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lambton, L, Beastly Buildings, (1985)
Scarfe, N, Shell Guide to Essex, (1975)
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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