Description

DODDINGHURST

TQ69NW MOUNTNESSING LANE
723-1/6/324 (South side)
20/02/76 Pettits Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
PETTITS LANE, Doddinghurst
Pettits Farmhouse)

II

House. C15, mid-C16, late C18/early C19. Timber-framed and
rendered with some brick, peg-tiled roof. L-plan of 3 units. 2
storeys. Irregular facade of 2 specific units. N block 2
storey, 2 window range with rendered stack to N. C20 wooden
casements with top opening lights. Ground floor C20 porch with
canted sides, glazed all round. Door C20 oak boarded with
rounded head. S block, one and a half storey 3 window range,
to N early C19 double casement window with glazing bars 4x2
panes, centre C20 canted bay window with principal and upper
lights, to S, C20 refurbished, gabled dormer window, casement
with top opening light. Central stack and S end gable stack
both red brick.
INTERIOR: the N block is earliest, C15, with jowled posts,
flat laid joists with soffit tenons, said to have exterior
tension braces and undecorated, simple crown post roof.
Principal members have bold chamfers. The first floor has the
evidence of 2 mullioned windows, one with a shutter groove.
Phase 2 comprises the one and a half storeyed range of the
mid-C16, central fireplace probably contemporary but now
rebuilt. Floor joists remaining in N hand section are flat
laid with diminished haunched soffit tenons, side purlin roof.
S end much rebuilt - evidence obscured but later framing
evident. In phase 3 the 2-storeyed range was constructed to
the rear of the C15 block, slender framing late C18/early C19.
C20 - whole house restored. Rear similar to front, casement
windows. One early C19 fixed window survives with glazing bars
4x3 panes with a gabled dormer window over (restored with C20
casement window).
(RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 15: 58).

Listing NGR: TQ6001398236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275849

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)