Description

RAYLEIGH THE CHASE
TQ 8090-8190
7/106 Barnaby's Hotel
16.6.86
- II

House, now a hotel. C16 or earlier origin with later alterations and additions.
Timber framed. C18 red brick front. Grey slate hipped roof. Right, left and
rear red brick chimney stacks. Rear wings. The original 3 window range building
breaks forward with single bays to right and left. Stone parapet. 3 small paned
vertically sliding shutters with gauged brick arches and shutters to first floor,
similar window to ground floor left, C19 bay to ground floor right. Central
pedimented porch with dentilled soffit supported by plain columns and pilasters
with moulded capitals and bases, double 6 panelled doors. Most internal features
concealed but heavy flat section ceiling beams and stop chamfered bridging joists
visible, also solid arched braces to ground floor bridging joist. Carved 3 panel
overmantel dated 1641 with figures to panels. No inspection of first floor at
time of resurvey but said to contain part of exposed timber frame. Reputed to
have been a Tudor hunting lodge.

Listing NGR: TQ8180090382

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406570

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)