Baythorne End

Hamlet in Essex, England

Human settlement in England

Birdbrook

District

Braintree

Shire county

Essex

Region

East

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Braintree

List of places: UK; England; Essex

52°03′25″N 0°30′51″E / 52.05681°N 0.51404°E / 52.05681; 0.51404

Baythorne End is a hamlet in the English county of Essex, England. It is located directly on the border with Suffolk. The hamlet is within the civil parish of Birdbrook and forms a part of the Braintree parliamentary seat. Immediate neighbouring villages include: Ridgewell, Sturmer, Stoke-by-Clare and Wixoe.

Notable buildings include Baythorne Mill, Baythorne Hall, which dates from 1341 ^[1] and the mansion and estate at Baythorne Park. ^[2] Baythorne Hall is an early manor house of exceptionally high quality and exceptionally good state of survival, one of the earliest known examples of the hall house with contemporary jettied crosswings, which later was to become a common form.

The estate was purchased by George Pyke in 1640, where he built the Baythorne Park mansion some 28 years later. The mansion was somewhat larger than Baythorne Hall. Baythorne Park continued to be owned by the Pyke family for well over 200 years.^[3]

References

^ Walker, John (2014). "BAYTHORNE HALL, A RAISED-AISLED HALL IN BIRDBROOK, ESSEX, AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER RAISED-AISLED HALLS". Vernacular Architecture. 45: 81–95. doi:10.1179/0305547714Z.00000000026.
^ Bettley, James; Nikolaus Pevsner (2007). Essex: The Buildings of England. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11614-4.
^ "BIRDBROOK : White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848". Archived from the original on 29 September 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009. Baythorn Hall, an old mansion near the Swan, is the property of King Viall, Esq., who also owns the larger and more elegant mansion of Baythorn Park, which has extensive grounds, and stands on a bold acclivity above the river Stour, but is now unoccupied.