PORTERS HALL

PORTERS HALL, MAIN ROAD, FORD END, CM3 1LL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338469
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:: PORTERS HALL
Statutory Address:: PORTERS HALL, MAIN ROAD, FORD END, CM3 1LL

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Date:: 2004-11-19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338469
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:: PORTERS HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PORTERS HALL, MAIN ROAD, FORD END, CM3 1LL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PORTERS HALL, MAIN ROAD, FORD END, CM3 1LL

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

County:: Essex
District:: Chelmsford (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Waltham
National Grid Reference:: TL 67346 17137

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/06/2016

TL 61 NE 1/214

GREAT WALTHAM FORD END MAIN ROAD Porters Hall

(Formerly listed as Cottages opposite the Swan Inn, DUNMOW ROAD)

GV II A C17 timber-framed and plastered house built on an L-shaped plan with wings extending north-east and south-east. The south-east wing is faced in red brick with end pilasters 2 storeys. 3 window range on the south-west front. The windows on the ground storey are paired. 2 window range on the north-west front. The windows are casements. Roofs tiled, with a small gablet at the north-west end and an original cruciform chimney stack: (RCHM 38).

Brook House, Moss Rose Cottage and Hill Rise Cottage, Down House, Swan Cottage and Porters Hall form a group. (Moss Rose Cottage and Hill Rise Cottage, and Down House are buildings of local interest).

Listing NGR: TL6734617137

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Legacy System number:: 112702
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)

Legal

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