Date: -
Address: Main Road, Boreham, CM3 3HY
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Price:
£10 Members
£15 Non-Members
Event details
Saturday 8 August 10am
Join the Essex and Suffolk Group for a rare opportunity to see parts of two Grade I listed properties, linked together in history, now back under the same ownership and not generally open to the public - New Hall School, the remaining wing of the Tudor Palace of Beaulieu, (1517), with its recently discovered tunnel entrances; and Boreham House built c. 1728 on land of the New Hall estate.
Boreham House dates from c.1728 and is Grade I listed and set within a designed landscape including a canal in front of the house, which is on the Register of Parks and Gardens of special interest at Grade II. The house lies on land which was originally part of the New Hall estate. In 1713 part of the estate was sold to Benjamin Hoare, who built Boreham House for his family. He removed some of the finest fittings from New Hall to his new house.
The house remained a family home, mainly with the Tyrell family until Henry Ford purchased the site in 1930. Under his ownership, Boreham House and the surrounding land became the Henry Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering. From 2008 it was used as a wedding venue until New Hall School purchased the site in 2024.
The New Hall estate was acquired by Henry VIII in 1517, and he rebuilt or enlarged an existing house into a great quadrangular palace, which became a model Hampton Court Palace. In 1660, at the Restoration, the palace came into the possession of George Monck, Duke of Albemarle. In 1713 his son’s widow Lady Elizabeth Cavendish sold it to Benjamin Hoare who instead of living there, built Boreham House.
In 1737 it was sold to John Olmins Baron Waltham of Philipstoun who demolished all but the north wing. In 1798 it was bought from his son by the English Community of the Cannonesses of the Holy Sepulchre and is now one of the oldest Catholic schools in the UK In 1943 the building suffered extensive bomb damage, but it has since been carefully repaired. In 1994, the current Preparatory School was re-established on the campus at New Hall
We will be shown around by an architectural historian and will see the ground floor rooms of Boreham House, which are still rich in Georgian details, and the gardens. After lunch we will be shown key historical Tudor rooms in New Hall and have the chance to see the recently discovered tunnel entrances.
Programme
10am Arrive at Boreham House
10.30 Tour of Ground floor rooms and chance to
look around the gardens
12 Drive over to the New Hall site for lunch
(self provided). Teas and coffee will be
provided
1pm Tour of historical rooms of New Hall and
Tunnel entrances.
3.30pm End
You will need
Please bring a packed lunch.
How to get there
New Hall Boreham House
Main Road, Boreham, CM3 3HY
New Hall School
The Avenue, Boreham, CM3 3HS
Full details and Joining Instructions will be sent to those registering for the event.
Accessibility
There are steps at both Boreham House and New Hall and the gardens have a number of different levels.
Anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you? Please email membership@spab.org.uk.
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Photo credit: New Hall School