Belchamp Hall | |
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General information | |
Type | Country house |
Architectural style | Queen Anne |
Location | Belchamp Walter, Essex, England |
Coordinates | 52°02′04″N 0°39′40″E / 52.034514°N 0.661249°E |
Completed | c.1720 |
Belchamp Hall is a Queen Anne style country house in Belchamp Walter, near Braintree, Essex, England. It is a privately owned Grade II* listed building.[1]
It is constructed of red brick in two storeys in a double-pile plan form with a gabled peg-tile roof with attics. The front facade has nine bays with a parapet. The central bay projects and is surmounted by a pediment. The house was built c.1720 in place of an original Elizabethan house and offers good views across the valley of the Belchamp Brook to the village of Bulmer.
The interior panelling is Elizabethan or Jacobean, probably from the original building. Numerous family portraits by well-known artists decorate the walls.
The surrounding parkland, significantly reduced in size since 1741, is itself Grade II listed.[2]