Castle Hedingham houses [19]
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Castle Hedingham houses [19]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 12 Sep 2020
Originally a hall house with two crosswings, numbers 7 and 7A Falcon Square are 16th century or earlier. Timber framed and stuccoed. The central chimney stack was restored in 1675 and there have been other later alterations. Number 7A has been used as maltings, a skittle alley and for making toffee. It was converted into a youth hostel in 1937 and number 7 was purchased and added to the hostel in 1947. Partly rebuilt and modernized in 1971, the hostel closed in 2007. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168493 Castle Hedingham is a small village in Essex about 15 miles north west of Colchester. The village developed around the Norman castle and is home to a large number of timber framed medieval buildings. The village’s railway station which was opened in 1867, closed in 1964 and was dismantled and rebuilt in 1974 on a new site to the north west of the village by the Colne Valley Railway Preservation Society.
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