Bocking Hall (EHER 27991)

Bocking Hall is a timber-framed and plastered house built in the second half of the 16th century on a T-shaped plan.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Bocking Hall (NAT). <1> Bocking Hall is a timber-framed and plastered house built in the second half of the 16th century on a T-shaped plan. Added to in the 17th century and altered in the 18th century, it has two storeys and attics. <2> <3> February 1979. Field visit. Name confirmed; a private residence. <4> 1999. Survey. Bocking Hall was the manor house for the Manor of Christchurch Canterbury. In an Extent of 1309 it was described as 'well and sufficiently built'' on a five acre site with a courtyard, garden, meadow, dovecote and two mills, one of which was for fulling. The manor house itself was rebuilt in the second half of the sixteenth century, but it is thought to occupy much the same site as its predecessor. 30 metres to the east of the Hall is an early 14th century single-aisled building that originally formed part of the hall complex. The current building is a timber-framed and plastered house built in the second half of the sixteenth century, added to in the 17th century and altered in the 18th. <5> August 2004. Evaluation. Archaeological evaluation took place on 2nd and 3rd August 2004 in hall grounds adjoining the Church of St Mary the Virgin near the junction of Bovingdon Road and Church Street, Bocking Churchstreet. The investigation was prompted by the proposed construction of an extension and detached garage/studio in the garden to the north-west of the hall. No remains of early buildings were found. The area had been made up to form a terrace more or less level with the house; it is composed mainly of building debris originating in the post medieval period. Finds from the terrace included cambered peg-tile, clay pipe stem and residual Mill Green ware (13th-14th century). <6> See also: <7>