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TREE RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM HILL HALL, THEYDON MOUNT, ESSEX |
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Historic England Research Reports
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
This large country house is known to have been built by Thomas Smith, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I, between AD 1569-1575, although the exact sequence of building remained uncertain. A north-west wing was added later, and its date had been the subject of some conjecture, its unusual curved principal rafters being rare in the region. The dendrochronolgical study has provided a date for the felling of timbers used in the north range of the house to the period AD 1564-1580, thus apparently ruling out a possible earlier date of AD 1557-8 derived from some documentary references, though one timber did have an earlier date (felled AD 1546). The roof of the north-west wing was found to date to the period AD 1683-1701, over a century later than had previously been suggested. |
Author: |
M. C. Bridge
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Publisher: |
Historic England
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Essex County Council Historic Environment (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
1999
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Site: |
Hill Hall, Mount Road |
County: |
Essex |
District: |
Epping Forest |
Parish: |
THEYDON MOUNT |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 548922, 199478 (Easting, Northing)
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englishh2-115562 |
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55/1999 |
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A4 bound report of 18pp (ISSN 1749 8775)
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01 Feb 2018 |