Matching Hall
MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337571
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Matching Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337571
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Matching Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN
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:
- MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 52538 11906
Details
TL 51 SW MATCHING CHURCH GREEN 3/58 Matching Hall 22.2252 (formerly listed as Matching Hall and Dovecote) II* Manor house, C15, altered in C16, C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Aligned approx. NW-SE, aspect now SW formerly NE. 2-bay crosswing at NW end, C15, with central chimney stack, C17. 2-bay crosswing at SE end,c.1600. 2-storey hall block between them, c.1600. Chimney stack at junction with SE crosswing, late C16, forming a lobby-entrance to NE. At N corner of NW wing, square service building with pyramidal roof, 2 storeys, C17. Single storey extensions with pitched roofs to NE and SE of it, C20. Second square building with pyramidal roof, 2 storeys, NW of the first, linked to it by a wall, date uncertain. 2 storeys with attics. SW elevation, ground floor, gabled porch, 4 double-hung sash windows. First floor, 3 double-hung sash windows. Facade gable in middle of hall block, with double-hung sash windows in this and the gable of the SE crosswing. Grouped diagonal shafts on axial chimney stack. Some framing exposed internally. Axial beam in SW bay of NW crosswing plain chamfered with step stops. Axial beam in hall block plain chamfered with bar stops. Roof of NW crosswing of crownpost construction, much altered, originally with gablet at SW end, altered to a gable. Crownposts and collar-purlin missing, some original collars present. Roof of SE crosswing of clasped purlin construction with curved wind braces. Roof of hall block of joggled butt purlin construction, with facade gables both sides. Like many medieval houses this has undergone extensive reconstruction in the period of agricultural prosperity and rapid social change in the late C16 and early C17. Originally it had an open hall in the place of the present hall block, with the present NW crosswing forming a parlour and solar.
Listing NGR: TL5253811906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118147
- 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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