The Gatehouse website record for Harlowbury Abbots Palace

In the civil parish of Harlow. In the historic county of Essex (Modern Authority of Essex, 1974 county of Essex).

C13 timber-framed Abbots' Palace formerly belonging to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, the aisles were removed and the whole encased in mid C19 stock brick. Plan, cruciform roof steeply pitched and clad with peg-tiles, hipped end gabled; with a dentilled brick eaves-band-cellars beneath house. West range 4 bays, east range 2 bays. Whole of 2 storeys with C19 sash windows, paned, beneath rubbed brick arches. Projecting bay at centre of front contains porch, its roof gabled. Timber-framed and rendered wing at north. Insider the main range contains the original roof of the great hall, this is notch lap-jointed and under-raftered, and was built after the older cross wing roof that is also notch lap-jointed and inside which a C14 crown post system was intruded. The top-plates of both roofs are splayed. Close to earthworks of DMV.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL47751209

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 918844
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 3610 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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