Colville Hall (EHER 4357)

An early 16th century timber-framed house.

Monument description derived from merging EHER 4357 and 38048. Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: The house has 17th century additions, including windows and a chimneystack. The space between the wings was built over and one of its gables has traces of a date in the plaster, possibly 1692. <1> The house (in fairly good condition) was built about 1500 and had considerable rebuilding in the 16th and 17th centuries. A gateway of red brick, now in poor condition, is contemporary with the house. House Grade II*. <2> <3> Colville Hall. Early 16th century house, timber-framed and plastered, with red plain tile roofs. H-plan with later extensions (RCHM 13). Moated site. Grade II*. <4> Other ref: <5> South of the hall are remains of formal gardens. <6> Slides of buildings and earthworks in ECC, Archaeology section. <7> Copy of a will of 1580 with some description of the house is in ECC. <8> "A remarkably well maintained Tudor Manor complex associated with the remains of an earlier settlement". South of the hall are remains of a formal garden with a Tudor brick gateway. <9> A programme of building recording was undertaken on three listed post-medieval farm structures and a modern stable at Colville Hall prior to conversion and change of use of part of the site into a wedding venue. The extensive farm complex lies within a scheduled area containing the remains of a medieval moat, fish ponds and signs of a postulated deserted medieval village. <10> Colville Hall - Tudor and medieval remains at White Roding. Scheduled no. 213. <11> September 1971. Field survey. Colville Hall (Nameplate) an outstanding example of Tudor architecture, recently restored. The contemporary gateway, incorporated in a later garden wall, is in danger of collapsing. At TL 5533 1343 is a stable block of the same period in outstanding, original condition. Surveyed at 1:2500. <12> May 1976. Field survey. No change. <13> February 1997. Report. The county evaluation includes this monument only as a moat and, as this aspect of the complex is not particularly well preserved the site should be reviewed. <14> "This building was never a Manor. Its name is Colville Hall". <15> in <16> Colville Hall (NR). <17> See photos: <18> No evidence of a manor before May 1537 when John Browne bought the manor of Merks or White Roding from his uncle Sir Humphrey Browne, and seems to have established a new manorial seat here. The house was described and photographed by Miller Christy in 1903. Some rooms had linenfold panelling and armorial glass of John Browne was still present in the west window (both are now missing). Stable block is sophisticated and possibly of metropolitan workmanship, ahead of the local vernacular. Plan in this source with location of buildings. <19>