Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ69NW CHELMSFORD ROAD, Shenfield
723-1/6/262 (North West side)
20/02/76 No.108
Elm House

II

House. Early C17, extended in C18, C19 and C20. Timber-framed,
mainly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, partly plastered,
roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range facing
approx SE with a central stack, forming a lobby-entrance plan.
Later wing to rear centre, one bay.
Originally of one storey and attics, the main range was raised
to 2 full storeys clad in brick, and extended to the right in
the late C18. Lean-to extensions of various dates and sizes
across the full width at the rear, and C20 single-storey
extension to rear right of them. 3 mid-C19 sashes of 3+3
lights on each floor, with segmental brick arches on the
ground floor only. 4-panel door in C20 gabled porch. Hipped
roof. The left elevation is of ashlared plaster, mostly
covered by attached garages. The frame includes much elm, with
primary straight bracing.
INTERIOR: the left ground-floor room has a chamfered axial
beam of elm, unstopped, and a wide wood-burning hearth with
0.23m jambs and chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue
stops, reduced to half its original size with C19 brickwork;
C18/early C19 2-panel pine door to stair behind stack. The
ground-floor room to right of the stack has a chamfered
transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops; 3 posts are
similarly treated; C20 small wood-burning hearth. On the first
floor the original wallplate is exposed in the rear wall, with
a face-halved and bladed scarf, and lighter framing above it
where the roof has been raised approx one metre. The upper
left room has a floor of butt-edged hardwood boards. The
middle room has 2 early C18 moulded 3-plank doors to left, and
a plain boarded and battened door to right, all on original
hinges. A plain battened door to the rear of the right
ground-floor room is introduced, in a C20 frame.

Listing NGR: TQ6103895646

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491671

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