HATFIELD PLACE

HATFIELD PLACE, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1337808
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: HATFIELD PLACE
Statutory Address:: HATFIELD PLACE, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1337808
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: HATFIELD PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: HATFIELD PLACE, LONDON ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HATFIELD PLACE, LONDON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Hatfield Peverel
National Grid Reference:: TL 78524 11443

Details

TL 7811-7911, 12/64

HATFIELD PEVEREL, LONDON ROAD (south side), Hatfield Place

II*

Large house. 1791-5, by John Johnson for Colonel John Tyrell. Gault brick in Flemish bond, with dressings of limestone and Coade stone, roofed with slate. Double pile plan facing N, with 2 internal stacks at each side. Service wing to right, connected by cellar storey. Connecting block c.1905 by George Sherrin for Colonel Arkwright. Single-storey ballroom extension to left, mid-C19, and mid-C19 porch to front. 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3-window range of sashes of 12 lights with gauged brick heads, the ground-floor windows recessed in rusticated stone arches with Coade keystones of Flora and Pomona. The ground floor is clad with rusticated stone, supporting 4 pairs of Coade pilasters with defective foliate capitals, Coade frieze with paterae, and parapet with turned balustrade. Double 3-panel doors with plain fanlight in mid-C19 stone and brick porch with rusticated quoins and enriched parapet. The side walls rise above parapet level to form a mansard roof. A small extension to the right of the main elevation has one sash of 12 lights on the ground floor, 2 sashes of 3 + 6 lights on the first floor with plaster aprons, and a half-glazed door with side lights, stone pilasters and frieze. On the S (garden) elevation, cast iron canopy in 5 bays, verandah and steps incorporating the initials WMT, for William Michael Tufnell, who purchased the property in 1847 and died in 1905.

The INTERIOR retains most of the original Johnson decor; the ballroom and front extension are decorated in similar style. Oval staircase hall, doorways at both ends with semi-elliptical arches. Moulded tread ends, wreathed handrail, elegant wrought iron scrolled and foliate balusters with honeysuckle terminals of non-ferrous metal. Groined passage to rear with plaster figures and medallion in low relief. Drawing room (originally described as 'dining parlour') with marble chimney-piece and medallion of Orpheus. Smaller drawing room with 3 medallions. Original plaster friezes of sphinxes, lyres and scrollwork, with egg-and-dark, bayleaf and honeysuckle borders. 'Domical brick vault' below staircase hall, described as such in original accounts. This is the best documented of Johnson's Essex houses; the building accounts are in Essex Record Office (D/DKe F4). It was executed by John Johnson junior, Joseph Andrews and William Horsfall to a design by John Johnson senior, having close similarities inside and out to his earlier Holcombe House (now called St. Mary's Abbey), Mill-Hill, London NW7 (Nancy Briggs, unpublished lecture to the Georgian Group, 1983, and Woolverstone Hall, Some Reflections on the Domestic Architecture of John Johnson, 1732-1814, Proc. Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, XXXIV, 1977, 59-64).

Listing NGR: TL7852411443

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History' in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, , Vol. 34, (1977), 59-64

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.