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Garden front showing the hall’s three gables and balcony above the bay to the right
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Chigwell Hall is a Grade II listed[1] manor house in Chigwell, Essex, designed by Richard Norman Shaw, his only house in Essex.[2] It was completed in 1896 for Alfred Savill, founder of the Savill’s estate agency,[3] and has been owned by the Metropolitan Police Service since 1967, serving as its sports and social club.[4] The house is also used for business functions and weddings.

Chigwell is a large two-storey red brick house with attics, built to a square floor plan with a service range to the west. The hipped roof with bargeboards and weatherboarding is tiled.[1]

The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner describes the house as “especially good, surprising in its freshness and looking as it might well [had it been built] twenty-five years later”.[3]

References

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  2. p. 229
  3. pp. 229–230
  4. p. 58

Bibliography

Bettley, James, and Nikolaus Pevsner. Essex. Yale University Press, 2007.
Historic England. Chigwell Hall. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1337253.
Watson, John A. F. Savills: A Family and a Firm, 1652–1977. Hutchinson Benham, 1977.