List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: WALLS AND TURRETS NORTH WEST, WEST AND SOUTH WEST OF BECKINGHAM HALL
List Entry Number: 1121866
Location
WALLS AND TURRETS NORTH WEST, WEST AND SOUTH WEST OF BECKINGHAM HALL, CHURCH ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Essex
District: Maldon
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Tolleshunt Major
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 30-Dec-1959
Date of most recent amendment: 05-Feb-1987
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 353211
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Details
TOLLESHUNT MAJOR CHURCH ROAD
TL 91 SW (east side)
3/107
Walls and turrets NW,
30.12.59 W and SW of Beckingham
Hall,(formerly listed
as Boundary Wall at
Beckingham Hall)
GV II
Walls and turrets of courtyards, 1543-6. Red and blue bricks in irregular bond.
From a point 30 metres NW of Beckingham Hall the wall extends 30 metres to the
WSW, then 40 metres to the SSE (this section including a gatehouse, listed
separately as item 3/106) and then 37 metres to the WNW to join the SW corner of
Beckingham Hall. At the S corner a turret forms one side of a formerly arched
gateway (arch missing), and another turret 4 metres to the SSE forms the other
side, and the wall continues one metre SSE to meet a C19 agricultural building.
Turret at W corner. Height of wall approx. 2.50 metres. Chamfered plinth 0.50
metre wide, main part 0.32 metre wide. Dogtooth course on each side supports
projecting courses 0.55 metre wide; inclined bricks form a steep V-coping, the
edge finished with tile. Approx. 14 metres ENE of the W turret the wall steps
down 5 courses to accommodate to the gradient of the site, with a truncated
corbelled pinnacle at this point. Similar feature in the SE length. Diaper
pattern in blue flared headers on full length of inside, and outside of SW
length only, interrupted by blocked wicket immediately NW of gatehouse. The W
angle turret is round and hollow, with a doorway having a 4-centred head to the
SE; it rises above the wall with a dogtooth course and projecting courses to a
steep pinnacle. The turrets of the S gateway have doorways to the N and NE
respectively, with 4-centred heads, dogtooth courses and projecting courses, and
tapering crenellated parapets. Built for Stephen Beckingham (P. Morant, The
History and Antiquities of Essex, 1768, I, 390) and shown in its relationship to
the (then) larger house on estate map of 1637 by Samuel Cosin (Essex Record
Office, T/M 4/3).
Listing NGR: TL9092811274
Selected Sources
Books and journalsMorant, P, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, (1768), 390
Map
National Grid Reference: TL 90928 11274
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