PANFIELD HALL

PANFIELD HALL, HALL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1337833
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
List Entry Name:: PANFIELD HALL
Statutory Address:: PANFIELD HALL, HALL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1337833
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
List Entry Name:: PANFIELD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PANFIELD HALL, HALL 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:: PANFIELD HALL, HALL ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Panfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 73994 25029

Details

TL 72 NW and TL 7225-7325 PANFIELD HALL ROAD (south side)

3/16 and 7/16 Panfield Hall

2.5.53 - I

Great house. C16, altered in C18 and C20. Red brick in English bond with lime- stone dressings, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Hall range aligned E-W, c.1500 with at the W end a small mid-C16 extension to the S and a larger extension to the N, C18 and C20. At the E end a second hall-range of similar size and orientation, c.1570, with a stack in the S wall. From this a parlour/ solar range formerly extended to the N, probably part of a quadrangular plan, which has been truncated to approx. 3 metres. Square tower to E of the junction, c.1570. 2 inserted stacks, one in the original hall and one at its junction with the later hall. 2 storeys with attics. The original hall has a moulded brick plinth, exposed on the N and S elevations and returning at the E end into the junction with the later hall. This has in the N elevation a window of 3 lights with 3 arched heads of 4-centred curvature, recessed spandrels and hollow-moulded jambs, mullions and transom, a similar window of 2 lights on the first floor, and a blocked large hall window with moulded jambs, 4-centred head and external label; below it, the brick plinth is ornamented with a diaper design in limestone. The E gable has a 3-light window similar to that in the N elevation, now enclosed by the E extension. The second hall has in the N elevation a single-light window with square head and ovolo-moulded jambs, on the first floor a window of 4 lights with square head and ovolo-moulded jambs, mullions and transom, and a similar window of 3 lights on the ground floor of the S elevation. The other windows are C20 reproductions. The doorway in the N elevation of the second hall has a square head and ovolo-moulded jambs. The S stack has 3 octagonal shafts, 2 ornamental and one plain, accurately restored. The E tower is in 4 stages externally, with a moulded plinth and moulded string courses at each storey. The ground storey forms a porch with an E doorway with semi-circular outer arch, keystone and moulded imposts; above the arch is a sunk panel with a C17 shield of arms in stone for Symonds of Great Yeldham, within a flat pediment of brick. The 2 lower storeys have 2 windows on each side of moulded brick, cement-rendered. The third storey has round-headed windows, and a doorway with arched head of 4-centred curvature to the W, from the house. Most of the windows are blocked. The original (W) hall has a NE doorway (originally leading to the parlour) with roll-moulded jambs and 4-centred arched head of plastered brick. At the SW corner there is a doorway into the small S extension with moulded jambs and Tudor head with carved spandrels. A short section remains (in the N corridor) of the edge of a former 'low end' gallery, moulded and carved in the same style as the roof, with a defaced shield of arms. The roof is of 3 bays with arch-braced collar trusses on wallpieces with the finials carved in high relief, serpentine braces to the wallplates, trefoil and quatrefoil pierced tracery in the spandrels, 2 butt-purlins to each pitch, and serpentine wind-bracing, all components being moulded, unsooted. At the apex there is an incomplete line of horizontal panels with quatrefoil piercing. A fourth bay at the W end is of plain construction. The later (E) hall has 2 transverse moulded beams with lamb's tongue stops, and the original roof of 5 bays, with arch-braced collar trusses profiled to form a barrel-vault of 4-centred curvature, originally plastered to the soffit, now stripped, and side-purlins with curved wind-bracing above. Traces of moulded plaster remain on the end walls above the level of the inserted celing, in moulded panels with detaced heraldic emblems. The original N wallplate has a face-halved and bladed scarf. 2 tiebeams have been inserted. C17 stair introduced in C20. RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL7399425029

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Legacy System:: LBS

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