Channonz Hall

1. 5321 TIENHAM PLANTATION ROAD Channonz Hall TM 18 NW 15/2A 11.9.51

II* GV

1. Second half of C16. The date 1569 above east door is not original. Only the east kitchen wing remains of a former U-shaped house. Most of the hall section and the west wing were demolished in 1784. Built of red brick with tiled roofs, 2 storeys plus attics, the central hall had a tall gabled porch and the marking wings were connected by a wall with a gatehouse at the centre enclosing a square court. The north gable of the remaining wing (like the demolished west wing) is crow-stepped with tall ornamental moulded brick finials with ogee-shaped caps, which were surmounted by wind vanes. (The porch and dormers were similarly treated but none survive). The finials rise from octagonal corner buttresses. There are moulded brick string courses. The north end one bay and west side 3 bays have 3 and 4-light windows with moulded brick hollow-chamfered mullions and transoms, and are surmounted by shallow moulded brick pediments. The west doorway of the east wing is similarly pedimented, with moulded architrave and round arch, the door is original. On west side (the original out side) there is a large chimney stack with octagonal shafts, the original bellcote has been demolished. Interior: partition walls of timber-frame. Ground floor south-east room has incised circles on plaster ceiling-purpose? Very crude wall drawing in attic. Panelled first floor room. Panelled doors throughout the house of 1721. The house is on a moated site and there is an earlier medieval moated site to south-east. The house was extensively repaired and the interior modernised in 1721-4 by John Buxton who was an amateur architect.

Listing NGR: TM1477088471