1880 - Stanway Hall, Colchester Zoo, Essex. - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

A red brick-built manor house of two storeys with attics known as Stanway Hall. The front range is of five and two half bays, with four rearward extending ranges. It has a red tiled roof with two attic dormers, also tiled, and two gable end ridge stacks. The outer two bays extend forward at the ground floor, the two half bays are at either side of the main entrance door which is set in an arched recess. Above the door is a fan with the initials DEH intertwined, (for the DeHorne family, see later). The first floor central window has the date stone above the lintel. Above this there is a dormer pediment extending out sideways over the two half bays with two urns as features. Above the outer bays are smaller dormer pediments also with urns. The hall is used as offices and conference centre for the zoo organisation.

The following is taken from the "Victoria County History, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10: Lexden Hundred (Part) including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe" The manor house, Stanway Hall, with three adjoining farms, was settled in 1731 on John Hopwood's son John (d. 1734), who devised it to Sarah Richardson, later wife of Stephen Aldrich. George DeHorne, a London merchant, bought the house and land in 1770. He died in 1789 and was succeeded by his son John (d. 1845), by John's nephew George DeHorne (d. 1877), and by George's nephew Thomas De-Horne. Thomas sold the Hall between 1886 and 1890 to Thomas Moy, a wealthy Colchester merchant and its tenant from 1880. The Moy family retained the estate until 1937 or later.

There is a lot of Viginia creeper covering the building hiding some of its interesting features.

Year of construction: 1880 Cross-listed waymark: Not listed Full inscription: Not listed

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