Description

BLACKMORE

TL6001 THE GREEN 723-1/15/46 (North side) 20/02/76 Dadd's Village Stores (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD BLACKMORE House and shop east of the Leather Bottle Inn)

GV II

House, now shop and house. c1400, altered in C17 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing approximately S with axial stack in left bay, 3-bay parlour/solar cross-wing to right, 2 bays of a formerly 3-bay service cross-wing to left. Extensive C20 additions to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The walls of the hall, originally only about 2.50m high, have been raised to full 2-storey height, so that a continuous roof now covers the incomplete left cross-wing, the raised hall, and overlays the ridge of the right cross-wing, appearing to form a T-plan. Ground floor, one C20 casement, and C20 projecting shop window. First floor, three C20 sashes of 16 lights. C20 half-glazed door with C20 flat canopy on curved brackets. Gablet hips at right end, and at rear end of right cross-wing. In the right elevation, on the first floor, is a C17 2-light window comprising one wrought-iron casement, and one fixed light, with leaded diamond panes of handmade glass, partly overlaid by a disused external stack. The ground floor has been extensively altered for use as a shop. INTERIOR: all the studs are missing from the rear wall of the right bay of the hall, and between the hall and the parlour. Only 2 studs remain of the original partition between the middle and rear bay of the right cross-wing. All the studs are missing from the left and rear walls of the rear bay of this cross-wing. The main posts remain. The central post at the right end of the hall has one peg for a bench fixing, and the post to rear of it retains a stub of the former doorhead between the hall and parlour, and the rebate and both pintle hinges for the door. The hall has a C17 inserted floor comprising a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of vertical section. The right cross-wing has chamfered binding beams and plain joists of horizontal section jointed to them with central tenons; at the rear end they are crudely jointed into a substituted old oak beam, roughly chamfered on both sides, a C20 insertion. There is a blocked original stair trap in the rear bay. Both hearths of the axial stack are blocked and plastered over; the only visible brickwork, at the rear, is C18. In the left (service) cross-wing, the original partition between the middle and former rear bay remains, with one arched brace tranched into the rear of the studs, and the original doorway with 4-centred head, mutilated. 2 original service doorways and associated framing have been removed from their original positions at the left end of the hall (where the stack is now) and re-erected on either side of a C20 hearth against the left wall. They have chamfered jambs and 4-centred heads, all in excellent condition, but the whole assembly re-pegged in the C20, the pegs projecting. This part has been re-floored in the C20 with plain vertical joists, machined. On the first floor of the hall range the original wallplates are visible about 0.40m above floor level, and about 1.50m of C17 framing above, with thin studs and primary straight bracing. Little framing is exposed at the left end, the former service cross-wing. In the right (parlour) cross-wing the original framing survives in exceptionally good order. Both wallplates are continuous timbers, 8.15m long chamfered with step stops. The posts are unjowled, with heavy studding and slightly curved braces trenched to the outside. A cambered tie-beam with deep arched braces between the front and middle bays, chamfered with step stops, originally formed an open truss, but has been infiled with wattle and daub at an early date, C16 or earlier. The wattle is well fitted in nailed studs, and its construction is exposed to the rear, in unusually good order. The original partition between the middle and rear bays largely survives, with 3 or 4 studs, and one pintle hinge of the original doorway at the left end. In the rear wall is an unglazed window with diamond mortices at top and bottom for one mullion. The middle bay is ceiled, but where visible the original crownpost roof appears to be intact, with 2 crownposts, at least 2 axial braces and all the rafters of the original gablet hip at the rear. The position and size of building indicate that originally it was of high status; those parts of it which have not been altered deserve careful preservation. The first-floor window in the right wall, and its early glass, merit special care. An application for conversion to flats is being considered at the time of this inspection. An estate map of 1832 shows this house with 2 wings extending to the rear, forming a half-H plan, and no other attachments. In the First Edition OS map of 1873 it is shown as the Post Office. (Essex Record Office: D/DQ 50/6).

Listing NGR: TL6036601899

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