Site Event/Activity record ECC4481 - Historic building assessment of Baytrees House, Boxted Church Road, Great Horkesley, 2018
Location
Location | Baytrees House, Boxted Church Road, Great Horkesley |
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Grid reference | Centred TL 9797 3189 (19m by 20m) |
Map sheet | TL93SE |
County | ESSEX |
Civil Parish | GREAT HORKESLEY, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Leigh Alston
Date
November 2018
Description
An historic analysis at Historic England Level 2 was carried out by Leigh Alston in November 2018 of Baytrees House to fulfil a condition of planning permission (the survey related specifically to a rear 20th century lean-to, prior to demolition).<1>
Baytrees House is listed at grade II as a 15th century timber-framed cross-wing house with a central open hall. It represents an exceptionally well preserved and historically important example of its type, reflecting the standard layout of its period but with unusual sophistications such as two cross-wing chimneys, an external parlour stair and possibly a stack-heated open hall. The external proportions of this building appear to have remained unaltered until the addition in the mid-19th century of the modern kitchen which was probably designed as a bake-house. At the beginning of the 20th century this was enlarged by a rear lean-to extension. Both the kitchen and its lean-to have been much altered both internally and externally with the insertion of modern Mock-Tudor leaded-light windows, and are now of little or no historic significance relative to the medieval structure.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SCC74308 Historic Building Recording: Alston, Leigh. 2018. Baytrees House, Great Horkesley, Essex: Historic Building Record.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- MCC3566 Baytrees House, Church Street, Great Horkesley (Building)
Record last edited
Apr 22 2020 7:39AM