Wangford Hall

TL 78 SE WANGFORD

4/91 Wangford Hall

GV II

House. Late C16 with alterations of C18 and mid C19. Hall range and 2 cross- wings. Timber framed and rendered. Glazed pantiled roofs with crested ridge tiles and bargeboards with undulating soffits and ridge finials. C19 axial and end chimneys of red brick; the axial chimney has 4 octagonal flues on a square plinth. 2-light mid C19 casements with hoodmoulds. 1-storey pantiled C19 entrance porch with carved bargeboards and ridge finial. Arched doorway with square hoodmould, framed and battened C20 door. Ovolo-moulded 1st floor members exposed internally. At the rear are C18 and C19 parapet-gabled extensions and alterations of flint rubble with red brick quoins; a further mid C19 gault brick kitchen extension to rear. Wangford Hall was the home of Sir Robert Wright (d.1689), Chief Justice of the Kings Bench to James I; afterwards also of Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice in 1689.

Listing NGR: TL7501883027