Description

TM 23 SW HARKSTEAD BEAUMONT HALL CHASE

6/14 Beaumont Hall
22/2/55

GV II

House, C16 or earlier with later alterations and additions including circa 1832
red brick restorations to right forward (south west) wing. Timber framed. C18
red brick to ground floor, weatherboarded first floor, C16 red brick left return.
Red plain tiled roofs. Left return external red brick chimneystack and wall with
black header diapering, moulded crow stepped head, concertina shaft. The diapering
is mainly conventional but to the right is a heart notif, believed locally to
represent the heart of Queen Anne Boleyn who wrote about a visit to 'Bemmets' and
whose heart is alleged to have been interred in a wall in Erwarton Church by
Sir Philip Parker of Erwarton Hall qv 3/12. Central stack with 4 square corner
shafts. Red brick stack to right wing. 2 storeys. 2 window range of 3-light case-
ments with transoms, 3 similar window range to right wing return, some of the
windows original with diamond leading and drop-over hinges. C18 central doorway,
moulded surround, flat canopy on console brackets. Interior: Ground floor, stop
chamfered bridging joists. Ceiling with moulded beams, moulded wall plates and
moulded jowled storey post. Moulded plastered 4-centre arched fire surround with
moulded finial. Traces of stencilled wall paintings were found during redecorations
but these have now vanished. There is an original chamfered timber arched window
to rear wall of first floor. Stick balusters to staircase. C18 corner cupboard
said to have come from the demolished Hostel of St Giles Chapel once situated on
the bank of the River Stour to south west of Beaumont Hall. Original ironmongery
and glass to many of the windows including those in the restored right range.

Listing NGR: TM2045733823

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26288583

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments