Listed Building: ALDHAM HALL (117311)

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Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 986, 11, 2
Date assigned 23 June 1952
Date last amended

Description

ALDHAM BROOK ROAD 1. 5214 Aldham Hall TL 92 SW 11/2 23.6.52 II* 2. Medieval House built on an attenuated Z-plan containing Elizabethan details and C14 framed floors with barefaced soffit-tenons. Timber framed and plastered with ridged and gabled roof peg-tiled. The north front comprises 2 ranges in line with a break in the roof height and a red brick chimney stack central to each range. The stack at the south-west having 2 octagonal shafts. The south-west range has 2 gabled dormers and a central early C17 porch with carved vergeboards and finial. Windows sets of modern casements with old ovolo mullions between. Inside very good Elizabethan panelling and fireplace with pilastered overmantle all of pine. A semi-hexagonal tie-beam exists in the west wing, as a result of a C16 conversion to 2 storeys. Remains of moat. (RCHM 2). Listing NGR: TL9184924860

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Location

Grid reference TL 9184 2486 (point)
Map sheet TL92SW
Civil Parish ALDHAM, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Record last edited

Nov 6 2019 4:47PM

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