Hall Road, Belchamp Walter

The location of the Mission Hut, Croft Cottages, Rose Cottage and Cobweb cottage in Belchamp Walter

Village Church Listed 1777 Mission Hut Conservation

Hall road is the location of the Mission Hut and the debate is whether it should be redeveloped as a family residence.

20 May 2026 - a visit. The Mission Hut is referenced on this page but it is not known if that was the reason for the visit.

13 July 2026 - 10 Impressions seen

21 July 2026 - Email from Simon Tatnall (165.120.20.10) - removed reference to 2-3 Croft Cottages and Mission Hut.

Simon Tatnall <simon1053sam@gmail.com> 9:19 AM (25 minutes ago) to martin
Dear Martin,
I really enjoyed reading your extensive history of Belchamp Walter.
However, I see that you mention 2 and 3 Croft cottages, Hall Road. You've stated:

'The cottages that are formerly no. 2 and no. 3 Croft have been converted into a single dwelling and there is no planning permission granted by Braintree District Council for this to be done.'

I would be grateful if you could amend this entry as you may agree if you read it again that it could imply some wrongdoing on our part. Also it could come up in searches in the future when selling the property and cause holdups.
I expect you did a search on the Braintree site and found no planning application.
The reality is that no planning permission was required as all the work was internal. The house used to be one property in the past and the old doorways were still present.
Every step of the conversion was monitored and agreed with Braintree council building regulators and the required fees were paid.
I would be grateful if you could remove this slightly misleading entry.
Thank you.
Simon

The building was 2 seperate dwellings as the 1891 census shows. It may have been converted to a single dwelling in the past, hence the internal doors. As I say in the note located by the commented-out entry, I have no wish to enter into a conversation in any form with Simon Tatnall. The conversion may have been done, to a single dwelling before planning was required.

22 July 2026 - Show Notes option removed from drop-down. These notes only displays when the "s" key is pressed. It is unlikely that Simon will press this key out of the blue.

Hall Road, Belchamp Walter

The Village Listed Buildings

Hall Road, Belchamp Walter, runs East from the crossroads towards Belchamp Hall (hence its name).

There are a number of Listed buildings on Hall/Church Road , most of which are outside the current village envelope (conservation area).

Shown below is an Ordnance Survey Office map of Hall Road from 1897.

Hall Road runs East from the cross-roads in the village of Belchamp Walter. On the North side of Hall Road are the Croft Cottages. Hall Road continues downhill to Springgates Farm.

On the South side if Hall Road is a dwelling known as Rose Cottage.

The dwellings South of the cross-roads include the Blacksmith's and some more flint cottages. This is now known as Gestingthorpe Road, formerly Poplar Road as per the 1891 census.

The 1891 census refers to a "Cottage near Croft", this could be Rose Cottage or it could be one of the flint cottages North of Hall Road.

The Playing Field

The land to the East of Springgate Farm is now the village playing field and the Round House cn be seen between the "a" and the "m" in the word "Belchamp" on the map. The Round House is believed to be a gate house for Belchamp Hall.
The Round House is listed as unoccupied in the 1891 census.

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Listed buildings on Hall Road - none in the Conservation Area

The two listed buildings on Hall Road are Springgates Farm and The Round House.
Hall Road becomes Church Road at the "t" junction that leads to the entrances of The Munt Farm, Munt House and the stable entrance to Belchamp Hall.

Continuing past the church on Church Road you pass The Munt Cottage, Hall Cottage and then Mill House, all listed buildings. Church Road is commonly known as Hall Road but this in not strictly correct.

The houses East] of the Crossroads are not listed and date from the 1850's apart from Rose Cottage which is of an earlier date (unknown - but is shown on the OS map of 1897 but not on the Chapman and Andre map of 1777).
These are known as Croft Cottages.

The 1891 census lists residents of these cottages.

The cottages were possibly built as housing for agricultural workers in the 1850's by Thomas Ruggles, the then owner of the Belchamp Walter estate (not including the Hall which was retained by the Raymond family).

The location of the Mission Hut, Croft Cottages, Rose Cottage and Cobweb cottage in Belchamp Walter

Hall Road, Belchamp Walter

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