Great Yeldham Hall

TL 73 NE 4/34 7.8.1952

GREAT YELDHAM CHURCH ROAD, West Side Great Yeldham Hall

GV II

Manor house, c.1300 and early C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay crosswing aligned NW-SE, c.1300, of a hall house to the SW of which the remainder has been demolished. On its site, a 2-storey range of 4 bays, early C16. Internal chimney stacks in crosswing, C17, and two in main range, C16 and C18. Aspect SE. C19 extensions to rear. 2 storeys. The SE elevation was jettied along its whole length, now underbuilt. One 6-panel door, one 4-panel door with the upper panels glazed, both with tented leaded canopies with scalloped edges. 4 double- hung sash windows of 8 lights on ground floor, 5 on first floor, C18, with many panes of crown glass. Continuous roof, hipped at the NE end. The interior has jowled posts, chamfered beams with step stops, plain joists of horizontal section, an original plank-and-muntin screen (a rare feature in Essex) with 2 reproduction Tudor doorheads, and at the head of the stairs, C16 pierced balusters. The roof of the NE crosswing has a moulded octagonal crownpost with wide straight braces, c.1300. The main range also has a crownpost roof, re- using many of the smoke-blackened components of the roof of the medieval hall. RCHM 2.

Listing NGR: TL7575038579