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Hall Place is a Grade I listed house located in Bexleyheath, Greater London (formerly Kent), dating primarily from the sixteenth century. The house was built by Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant, and is notable for its distinctive flint and brick construction with decorative chequerwork patterning characteristic of Tudor architecture. The building retains significant original features including its symmetrical facade, mullioned windows, and interior timber framing, though it has undergone various alterations and restorations over subsequent centuries. Hall Place represents an important example of Tudor domestic architecture and is now managed as a museum and heritage site open to the public.
Hall Place is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1001985. View the official record →
Hall Place is a Grade I listed house located in Bexleyheath, Greater London (formerly Kent), dating primarily from the sixteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1001985.
Hall Place is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1001985.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Scadbury Manor moated site and fishponds (5.9 km), A preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, known as St John's Jerusalem, and an associated fishpond at Sutton-at-Hone (7 km), Romano-British masonry building and Saxon cemetery, Fordcroft, Orpington (7.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hall Place's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Hall Place stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.