Listed Building: SHRUBLAND OLD HALL (279288)

CODDENHAM SHRUBLAND PARK TM 15 SW 7/39 Shrubland Old Hall 9-12-55 - II House; at date of survey an annexe to the Shrubland Hall clinic. Main range of mid C19. Cross-wing at south-east end was formerly the early C16 chapel attached to the north-west end of Shrubland Old Hall (the latter demolished early C19). Main range:- Gault brick. Slated roofs; axial chimney of gault brick with paired octagonal shafts with moulded caps and bases. 2 storeys and attics. Painted stone mullioned windows mainly of 3 lights; those flanking the entrance doorway have linking hoodmould. Panelled door. Cross-wing:- stuccoed masonry with shallow corner pilasters, and plain eaves cornice to slated roof (all part of an early C19 remodelling). Fine terracotta windows of c.1520, one in each gable. The west window is mullioned and transomed, the upper lights having arabesque heads: Each member has extensive enrichment; one armourial shield is believed that of Margaret, wife of Sir Philip Booth (assessed here in subsidy of 1524). Compare south window of Henley Church, also Barham and Barking. Roof of chapel is of early C16 butt-purlin type. One room has a plaster frieze of Catherine wheels and other emblems of C16 form. A drawing by P. Higham from a late C18 original by Humphry Repton shows a C13 or C14 2-light window with quatrefoil and hoodmould in the north-west wall; the chapel appears from this to have a mediaeval core, and to have received a gallery at the south west end in C16. Listing NGR: TM1277753015