Rivenhall Place (EHER 28986)

16th century red brick house with 18th century additions.

NRHE data transfer: Rivenhall Place [NAT]. <1> Rivenhall Place. An imposing 16th to 18th century house standing in its own grounds with a stream enlarged to form a lake and approached by a 3 arched brick bridge across the lake. Grade II*. <2> Rivenhall Place, 1 mile NNW of the church, is two storeys with attics; the walls are of brick; the roofs are tiled. The east part of the house was built in the second half of the 16th century with a cross-wing at the north end. The main staircase was added about 1700, and in the 18th century the east front was refaced and three ranges added on the west side making the plan quadrangular. The elevations have no ancient features except the north end and west side of the original block. At the north end is an original chimney-stack with three octagonal shafts having modern tops. The west side of the original block has at the north end a gable with a brick coping and at the apex the base of a pinnacle, set diagonally; in the gable is an original window of three lights; further south is a chimney-stack with the bases of three octagonal shafts. Inside the building the original staircase has a central newel-post. The staircase of about 1700 has turned and twisted balusters and a moulded rail ramped over square newels; the walls have a bolection-moulded and panelled dado. The house contains a considerable quantity of reset 16th and 17th century panelling and two fire-backs dated 1651 and 1652 respectively. Condition- Good, much altered. <3>