Ancillary Building 6 Metres South East Of Feeringbury Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. A Medieval Chapel, stable.
Ancillary Building 6 Metres South East Of Feeringbury Manor
- WRENN ID
- dim-sandstone-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Chapel, stable
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an ancillary building located 6 metres south-east of Feeringbury Manor, likely serving as a chapel, which has been combined with a stable block. It dates from the 15th century and has undergone alterations and extensions in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. It consists of two bays aligned northeast to southwest. The southeast wall was removed and rebuilt approximately 0.5 metres further out during the 19th century. Attached to the southwest is a stable built of painted brick with a slate roof, along with additional extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries on the southeast side. The building is one storey high.
The northeast elevation features three Gothic Revival windows with diamond leading, a plain door, and a vehicle entrance. There is also a 19th-century door on the northwest elevation. The structure includes jowled posts, heavy studding and girts, moulded wallplates, and mortices for moulded covings that are now missing. A moulded cranked tiebeam has mortices at the centre for axial beams that once supported a panelled ceiling, which has been removed. The crownpost roof with axial braces is mostly intact, except for one replaced rafter. The middle post of the southeast wall is cut off below the jowl and is supported by a 19th-century transverse beam, while the southern post is similarly cut off and supported by 19th-century construction. Inside, the walls are boarded up to the height of the girts, with exposed framing above. The high quality of the frame and the mouldings suggest that it was originally used for a high-status purpose; given its context within the Manor, which was once held by the Abbot of Westminster, it was likely a chapel. The 19th-century alterations were made to enlarge the span of the building.
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