MEDIEVAL DETACHED KITCHEN, AT LITTLE BRAXTED HALL, LITTLE BRAXTED, ESSEX: An Historical Assessment
Author(s): Richard Bond
The kitchen at Little Braxted Hall is a grade 11* listed timber-framed building dating to between AD 1397 and AD 1419. The building stands on a moated site and formed part of the residence of the medieval manor of Little Braxted. The present Little Braxted Hall stands a short distance to the south-west of the moated site; the house was probably built during the 16th century as part of a major replanning of the site which resulted in the land within the moat being given over predominately to agricultural use. With the removal of the main residence away from the former moated site there would have been no need to maintain the detached kitchen in its former use, and it seems likely that it was around this time that the building was adapted for its later use as a combined stable/dovecote. This study looks at the evidence for the detached kitchen as an historic building type in lowland En gland, and assesses the significance of the Little Braxted example in the context of current research in Essex and East Sussex.
- Report Number:
- 89/1998
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 39
- Keywords:
- Conservation Medieval
