Aide Memoire.
Barrington Hall, Essex.
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John Shales Barrington's heir was his kinsman Sir Fitz William Barrington, 8th Bt. (d.1792), of Swainston (I.W.). Thereafter the estate again descended with the baronetcy until the death in 1832 of Sir FitzWilliam Barrington, 10th and last Bt., whose heirs were
William Lowndes of Chesham (Bucks.) and William Selby
Lowndes of Whaddon Hall
(Bucks.), descendants of the above Anne Shales in the female
line.
Little Barrington Hall Farm, Hatfield Forest, Bush End,
Takeley, Essex, CM22 6NL. Built Heritage Survey
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4.13 In a partition of the estate made in 1836 William
Lowndes received the northern
division, including the manors of Hatfield Regis (Broad
Oak), Barrington Hall, and
Hatfield Priory, with lands totalling 1,374 a. and including
Barrington Hall Farm. William
Selby Lowndes received the southern division, comprising
1,797 a. including Matching
Barns and Pierce Williams farms. Immediately after the
partition of 1836 William
Lowndes sold his share of the estate to Thomas Lowndes (d.
1840). Thomas Lowndes
was succeeded by his sister's great-grandson George Alan
Clayton, who took the
name of Lowndes. G. A. Lowndes (d. 1904), was for 25 years
president of the Essex
Archaeological Society. His son and heir Major Alan H. W.
Lowndes sold the
Barrington Hall estate to Alfred H. Gosling in 1908. The
house, with 33 a. of land, was
conveyed by the Goslings in 1977 to the British Livestock
Co., who in 1980 sold it to
Contemporary Perfumers Ltd.
4.14 John Shales Barrington, who succeeded to the estate in
1734, soon afterwards built a
new Barrington Hall, 1 km. north of the church, and enclosed
it in a park. It is probable
that the architect was John Sanderson (d. 1774), and the
builder his cousin Joseph
Sanderson (d. 1747). The main three-storeyed block of the
house measured 110 ft. by
60 ft. and had a principal front to the south of nine bays,
with a Corinthian portico from
which a perron staircase descended on each side to the
basement floor. The walls
were of red brick, the architraves and embellishments of
limestone ashlar. The ancillary
buildings were concentrated in a lower wing on the east side
of the house. The interior
was fitted with carved fireplaces of stone and marble, one
of which is said to have cost
£700, richly moulded plasterwork, and mahogany doors. Henry
Cheere, the sculptor,
provided a stone staircase and a for both of which ironwork was supplied
by John Wagg, the black smith.
When the house was well advanced John Shales Barrington 'on
some dispute about
tithes … or … on a matrimonial disappointment … gave up the
design and retired to a
house at Waltham Cross, where he passed a long life in
obscurity.' In 1771 Barrington
Hall lay unfinished and neglected, and most of the furniture
had been removed. Sir
John Barrington, 9th Bt., who succeeded to the estate in
1792, made some alterations
to the house, but in 1809 it was again empty and still
unfinished. By 1833, when
Barrington Hall was for a short time reoccupied, the eastern
wing and the perron stairs
had been removed. When the estate was divided in 1836 the
house was said to be in a
good condition, but by 1847, after a further period of
neglect, it had greatly
deteriorated. It was not permanently occupied until 1863,
when G. A. Lowndes
remodelled the house to the design of Edward Browning. He
removed part of the west
end, altered the south front in an asymmetrical 'Jacobean'
style, and changed all the
windows and the roof line. Many of the original fittings
were retained. The interior was
modernized in 1956 and again in 1977.
4.16 The 18th-century park was laid out to the south of the
house, with its main entrance
from the south-west, by an avenue approached from Mill (now
Feathers) Hill. There
was an artificial lake near the house and an ornamental
temple in the centre of the
park. After the remodelling of the house in 1863 some of the
statuary and a capital from
the 18th-century south front were used as garden ornaments,
and a terrace was
formed along the south front to reduce the apparent height
of the basement storey. By
1875 a shorter entrance drive had been made from Dunmow
Road, to the north-west
providing access from the new Takeley railway station
(Powell, et al. 1983)
4.17 The Barringtons left Old Barrington Hall after the
purchase of the Priory at Hatfield
Broad Oak in 1564 (Essex Gardens Trust, 2003). The Old
Barrington Hall stood on a
moated site 2 km. north of Hatfield Broad Oak village and as
cartographic evidence
shows immediately to the south and east of Little Barrington
Hall. This later house,
(Little Barrington Hall) is thought to include older parts
which are probably fragments of
an earlier, larger building. The east range, which has a
continuous jetty along one side,
dates (stylistically) to the 16th century. marble table, for
both of which ironwork was supplied
by John Wagg, the smith.
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