Toppesfield Hall
TOPPESFIELD HALL, GREAT YELDHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338025
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Toppesfield Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TOPPESFIELD HALL, GREAT YELDHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338025
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Toppesfield Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOPPESFIELD HALL, GREAT YELDHAM 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:
- TOPPESFIELD HALL, GREAT YELDHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toppesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 74574 37110
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD GREAT YELDHAM ROAD North Side 3/17 Toppesfield Hall 7.8.1952 II House, late C16, altered in C18 and early C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned NE-SW, with parallel range to NW, C18. Rear chimney stack near middle of original range, now enclosed, and internal chimney stacks at both ends of both ranges, C18. C18 entrance extension to SE, with 2 hipped roofs, forming a T-plan. 2-storey lean-to extension to NW, C18, and single-storey service range beyond. Early C20 conservatory to NE. 2 storeys. All the exterior has been substantially altered in the early C20, and all doors and windows are of this period. The interior has ovolo-moulded beams, panelling of c.1600 with some reproduction, and an early C17 fireplace removed from Olivers Farmhouse, nearby. It has a moulded shelf supported by coupled Ionic pilasters, and surmounted by an overmantel of 3 bays, with detached shafts carrying foliated consoles and an entablature. Behind the shafts the bays are panelled, and the middle panel has arabesque arcading. An C18 wrought-iron crane in front has been introduced from another room. RCHM 2.
Listing NGR: TL7457437110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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