Aldham Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A Medieval Medieval house.

Aldham Hall

WRENN ID
noble-gargoyle-lark
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1952
Type
Medieval house
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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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