Stisted hall, near braintree, has a history of generosity that left a lasting legacy in the surrounding village. Hannah salisbury from the essex record office tells us more of the story.
STISTED HALL is a Grade II* listed mansion in the village of Stisted, two miles north-east of Braintree. The mansion that stands today dates from the 1820s, but it is not the first grand property to stand on the site. In the medieval period the manor of Stisted belonged to the monks of Canterbury Cathedral. During the Reformation the property was seized by the Crown and in 1545 Henry VIII granted it to Sir Richard Rich. In 1549 the estate was bought by Thomas Wiseman, who built a manor house and outbuildings there.
A manorial rental from this time describes the manor house as being near to the church, with a dovecot, bake house and other ‘houses of office’ detached from the main building, as well as stabling, a long house for hay and ‘a great, fair, and large barn’. The buildings were arranged around a courtyard and all ‘encompassed in on the east and south sides with a moat with water’. The total of the rents owed from the tenants of the manor to Wiseman as lord were ‘£12 15s 1d, a peppercorn, two hens, ten eggs, and the work of one fork in the little mead of the Lord, until the hay there be made’.
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