Woolston Hall
WOOLSTON HALL, ABRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337259
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Woolston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WOOLSTON HALL, ABRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337259
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Woolston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOLSTON HALL, ABRIDGE 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:
- WOOLSTON HALL, ABRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chigwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 45004 95703
Details
TQ 49 NW CHIGWELL ABRIDGE ROAD 1/51 Woolston Hall 28.6.54
GV II
House of late C16 origin, substantially altered in C18, now a club. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Aligned approx. NE-SW, main elevation to SE, with external chimney stack on NE end and chimney stack to rear of SW end. Large extensions to rear of SW end enclosing the latter stack. 2 storeys with attics. SE elevation, central 6-panel door in fluted and dentilled doorcase. 6 double-hung sash windows of 12 lights on ground floor, 7 on first floor, heavy dentilled cornice, 5 hipped dormers with double-hung sash windows of 9 lights, 2 rainwater heads bearing crests. SW elevation has double doors with 6 fielded panels, fanlight with C20 leaded glass, porch with paired Doric columns and pilasters, frieze, cornice and wrought iron railings over. 2 tripartite sash windows of 4-12-4 lights, C19. First floor, central french window opening on to roof of porch, 2 tripartite windows. Attic, 2 dormers of irregular shape with double-hung sash windows of 9 lights. Heavy dentilled cornice. The diagonal chimney shafts reported in the 1952 schedule are not present in 1983. Interior almost entirely concealed by modern decor, except one ceiling of first floor room with moulded guilloche and egg-and-dart border. In roof, arched wind bracing to clasped purlins. RCHM 5.
Listing NGR: TQ4500495703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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