Essex
| Name |
Type |
Date |
Condition |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audley End House | Country house | 17th century | Partly complete | An early 17th-century country house just outside Saffron Walden. It was once a palace in all but name and renowned as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England. It is now only one-third of its original size, but is still large. It remains the family seat of the Lords Braybrooke. | |
| Hadleigh Castle | Castle | 13th century | Ruined | The ruins of a royal castle begun in about 1215, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the 14th century. The barbican and two drum towers – one later used by Georgian revenue men looking out for smugglers – are part of his building works during the 1360s. | |
| Lexden Earthworks and Bluebottle Grove | Ramparts | Iron Age | Remains | The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester. | |
| Mistley Towers | Church towers | 1776 | Mostly complete | Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776. | |
| Prior's Hall Barn | Barn | 15th century | Complete | One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, with an aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks. | |
| St. Botolph's Priory | Priory | c. 1100 | Ruins | The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded about 1100. Built in flint and reused Roman brick, the church displays massive circular pillars and round arches and an elaborate west front. It was later damaged during the Civil War siege of 1648. | |
| St John's Abbey Gate, Colchester | Gatehouse | c. 1400 | Mostly complete | A pinnacled gatehouse, and all that remains of the Benedictine abbey of St John. Later part of the mansion of the Royalist Lucas family, the gatehouse was bombarded and stormed by Parliamentarian soldiers during the Civil War siege. | |
| Tilbury Fort | Device fort | 1539 | Mostly complete | A fort built on the north bank of the River Thames to defend London from attack from the sea. Henry VIII built the first fort here, and Queen Elizabeth I rallied her army nearby to face the threat of the Armada. Work started on the current fort in 1670 but was still continuing in the 1680s. The 19th century saw extensive re-design and re-modelling. | |
| Waltham Abbey Gatehouse and Bridge | Gatehouse and bridge | 14th century | Ruins | A 14th century gatehouse belonging to the Augustinian abbey which was dissolved in 1540. Nearby is the 14th century Harold’s Bridge across the Cornmill Stream. |
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