Lambourne Hall (EHER 34976)

Late 13th century moated timber framed house with 14th, 15th and 17th century alterations and additions.

December 1951. Grade II* listed. A timber framed and plastered house with red plain tiled roofs. It was originally a two-bay hall from the late 13th century. It is a complex plan and of many building phases. It is mainly two storeys or two storeys and attics. <1> House dates from late 13th century with14th, 15th, 17th century and later alterations and additions. A 17th-18th century garden wall of red brick runs south then parallel with the road from the south-eastern range of the Hall and is attached to the south-west range. It is of Flemish bond and approximately 2m tall with a ridge of triangular coping (see EHER 34977). <3> See photos <2>. Lambourne Hall was a sub-manor within the larger Domesday manor of Pudsey in 1066 and 1086, becoming an entirely separate holding in the mid 12th century. It took its name from a family that came from Lambourn, in the Ongar Hundred in the late 13th century. The tenant was one of those bound to attend the Whispering or Lawless Court in Rayleigh (see EHER 19766). The present Hall is in origin a late 13th century two-bay hall house, with 14th and 15th century additions, including the insertion of a brick chimney-stack in around 1480. The 1777 Chapman and André map shows the grounds of Lambourne Hall extended to the south of the road, terminating in a semi-circular moat or hedge. In the 17th century attics, a staircase and a gambrel roof were added to the original medieval frame. <4> Lambourne Hall, house and moat, about 1m ESE of the church. The house is of two storeys with attics; the walls are timber-framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled. It was built possibly late in the 15th or early in the 16th century but the south-east end was rebuilt in the 17th century when a two-storeyed porch was added on the south-west front of the chimney-stack inserted at the west end of the original hall. There are 18th century and modern additions. On the south-west front the upper storey of the porch projects and is gabled. The upper storey projected on the north-east side of the main block, but has been underbuilt. One chimney-stack has a 17th century hexagonal shaft. Inside the building a few of the curved braces supporting the main beams are exposed as are also some of the ceiling-beams. The moat formerly surrounded the house (see EHER 11275). Condition - of house, good. <5> Lambourne Hall [NAT]. <6> See also <7>.