Loughton Hall

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TQ 49 NW 1/39

LOUGHTON RECTORY LANE Loughton Hall

GV II

Large house, 1878, by Eden Nesfield. Red brickwork, some plaster, roofed with red clay tiles. In Jacobean style with some classical detail on the southeast (garden) elevation. Aligned approximately north east- south west, aspect north west, with five chimney stacks irregularly disposed, single storey service wing to north east and north. Two small flat-roofed single-storey extensions to south west, C20.

Three storeys. North west elevation, two gabled bays, the entrance in the north west bay. Jacobean style door in flat-roofed porch with eight Ionic columns, fluted above the mid-point, stone balustrade between them, wooden balustrade above. One three-panel door, three double-hung sash windows of eighteen lights and two casement windows, all below segmental arches with egg-and-dart border.

First floor, two large windows of Ipswich derivation, six casement windows with flat brick arches. Attic floor, central dormer of Venetian derivation, two flat-roofed dormers with casement windows. Chimney stacks of oblong form with canted bricks in the short side. Octagonal bellcote on ridge, off-centre, with leaded sides and ogival lead roof. The date 1878 and the letter 'M' (for Maitland) in moulded brick in some window arches. Similar in style to Norman Shaw's Chigwell Hall, Chigwell. (See Pevsner, Essex, p.288).

Listing NGR: TQ4387496458