Stambourne Hall
STAMBOURNE HALL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338338
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Stambourne Hall
- Statutory Address:
- STAMBOURNE HALL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338338
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Stambourne Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAMBOURNE HALL, CHURCH 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:
- STAMBOURNE HALL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stambourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 72190 38897
Details
TL 73 NW STAMBOURNE CHURCH ROAD 5/15 Stambourne Hall 7/8/52 II
Manorial complex, a 'Unit System' pair of houses, C15, altered in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. L-plan, consisting of hall house with 2 crosswings on NW-SE alignment, the service wing at the SE, and to NW of it a 5-bay house extending to the SW, forming an L-plan. Large chimney stack at the junction, c.1600. Axial stack in SW wing, external stack at end of SE wing, enclosed by false outer wall in C19. Single-storey extension to SE, C19. SW elevation, 2 sections of SE range set slightly forward with gabled roofs. Door of 6 fielded panels in recessed porch, 2 tripartite double-hung sash windows of 4-16-4 lights, one double-hung sash window of 12 lights. First floor, 3 double-hung sash windows of 12 lights and a pair of 8 lights each. 3 sets of carved bargeboards, and fretted bargeboards over single storey extension. In end of SW wing, one splayed bay of 5 double-hung sash windows on each floor. Some crown glass. General effect is of pronounced C19 Gothic style. Some framing exposed internally. On SE side of NW crosswing, originally forming the 'high end' of the medieval hall, curved tension bracing trenched into heavy studs, and first floor supported on pegged clamps. Outer walls largely rebuilt in C17 with primary straight bracing. One continuous roof built on NW-SE alignment, clasped purlin construction, C17. In SW wing, plain-chamfered axial beams with step stops, exposed joists of horizontal section jointed to beams with soffit tenons. Roof of this wing rebuilt in C17, butt purlin construction. Fireplace with 4-centred brick arch on SE side of main stack, first floor level. Carved bargeboards, late C16, have been re-used in the roof of the SW wing. Originally this complex comprised 2 houses arranged at right angles, both of manorial status but different in date and type, for 2 related households occupying the same land. Later they were combined, altered in the C17 to provide 2 full storeys throughout, and refashioned externally in the C19. Moated site. RCHM 2.
Listing NGR: TL7219038897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114159
- 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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