Description

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW OLD CHURCH ROAD 723-1/6/461 (North side) 29/12/52 Mountnessing Hall and attached walls, railings and gate (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD OLD CHURCH LANE, Mountnessing Mountnessing Hall)

GV II

Country house. Late C16, extended and altered in C18 and early C19. Timber-framed and plastered, with C18 facade and C18 and early C19 additions of red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay main range facing approximately S, with internal stack at front left; 2-bay cross-wing to left, with early C19 extension with axial stack to rear, and C19 single-storey lean-to beyond, roofed with red clay pantiles; 2-bay cross-wing to right, formerly with external stack to right, now enclosed by C18 extension beyond. Along the full width of the rear is an early C19 extension, of red brick up to first-floor level, timber-framed and plastered above. Early C19 2-storey garderobe to rear. 2 storeys, attics and half-cellar. Ground floor, 6 late C18 sashes of 6+6 lights with segmental arches. First floor, 7 similar sashes and a similar blank recess in the middle, painted to imitate a window. Central C20 door in C18 style, in simple doorcase with moulded flat canopy on moulded brackets; 3 limestone steps, and wrought-iron bootscraper set in top step. Plain boarded door to right extension. The central part of the main elevation, corresponding with part of the main range, is set back; the left cross-wing is integrated with the stack, and the right cross-wing and C18 extension to right form an approximately equal part standing forwards. Plain parapet. Hipped roof with one C20 skylight and one C20 casement in hipped dormer. The right stack has 3 grouped diagonal shafts. The right return has one C18 sash of 6+6 lights on each floor. The rear elevation has on the ground floor one wooden hatch, a large blocked aperture, and one early C19 sash of 8+8 lights, and on the first floor 2 early C19 tripartite sashes of 2+2, 4+4 and 2+2 lights, one sash of 6+6 lights and one late C19 sash of 4+4 lights. The garderobe has on the ground floor a plain door in a semicircular arched reveal, and on the first floor one early C19 casement; on the roof is a large rivetted tank of the same plan area, originally supplied by rainwater from the main roof. The right elevation of the rear wing has on the ground floor 3 early C19 sashes of 8+8 lights and one C19 casement, and on the first floor one early C19 sash of 6+6 lights. The windows retain many panes of handmade glass, and there are small areas of C19 chevron-patterned plaster in the rear and right elevations. 2 red brick walls extend forwards from the main range, enclosing the garden, joined at the front by a continuous range of iron railings with fleur-de-lys terminals on a dwarf wall, with a similar central gate, all early C19. INTERIOR: has been much altered in the C18 to create a large central entrance hall. The original axial beam, chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, terminates short of the right wall and is supported by a jowled prick post and an octagonal post with lamb's tongue stops; joists plastered to the soffits. The hearth to left has a late C18 cast-iron fireback with an embossed design of pineapples in 3 Gothic arches. The windows of the entrance-hall, the room to the right, and the room above the entrance-hall, have C18 panelled window-seats. The ground-floor room to the left has a chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops, and C18 panelled folding shutters in the window splays; its walls are lined with canvas stretched on battens, a rare survival. The room to the rear has a transverse beam supported on a framed wooden bracket. The cross-wings have clasped purlin roofs with straight wind-braces; the upper part of the roof of the right cross-wing has been altered, and a joggled butt-purlin roof of the main range has been extended over it to make a continuous hipped roof. The half-cellar or dairy to rear right has an C18 moulded 3-plank door. Early C19 open-well stair with stick balusters and moulded pine handrail.

Listing NGR: TQ6475496597

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