Stanstead Hall
STANSTEAD HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170482
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Stanstead Hall
- Statutory Address:
- STANSTEAD HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170482
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Stanstead Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANSTEAD HALL
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:
- STANSTEAD HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82692 28880
Details
TL 82 NW GREENSTEAD GREEN AND HALSTEAD RURAL 5/136 Stanstead Hall 7.8.52
GV II*
Large house. Mid-C16, extended in C20. Red brick in English bond, with dressings of clunch and plaster imitating stone, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. S range of a former substantial courtyard plan, facing N, with early C20 extension to rear right, and extension of 1935 to front of right end, all in matching style. 2 storeys and attics. The N front has on each floor four 3-light and two 2-light windows, all lights with pointed arched heads and leaded glazing, each group with a moulded label of plastered brick. 3 smaller similar 2-light windows with similar labels in dormers with curvilinear gables. The small off-centre entrance has moulded jambs and arched head of clunch. Brick plinth, moulded string course and parapet between gables. Some diaper pattern of black brick. The left end has octagonal corner turrets with crocketed pyramidal roofs enclosing a C19/early C20 oriel window of 2 storeys in similar style, and a 3-light window in a curvilinear gable similar to those on the N front. The rear elevation has 3 external stacks, one with 3 octagonal shafts to the former kitchen, the others each with 2 octagonal shafts. Gabled brick stair-tower between the latter, with an original 3-light window opening of chamfered brick with shallow arched heads. Internally there are partitions of typical mid-C16 timber framing and 2 heavily moulded timber door surrounds with arched heads, and early examples of joists of deep narrow section tenoned at the top and at the soffit. The S extension has one room with re-used C17 panelling with frieze and pilasters. Adjoining is a stair hall with heavily moulded beams, possibly re-used, one with .cresting, crenellations and a bead-and-reel strip among the Tudor chamfers. Roof much altered, with remnants of original wind-braced side-purlin structure. Large rectangular moat with fragments of brick revetment and enclosing wall. Former home of Lord Butler of Saffron Walden. RCHM 1.
Listing NGR: TL8269228880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115975
- 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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