Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ69SW CHILDERDITCH STREET, Childerditch
723-1/9/553 The Fruit Farm
24/05/93
(Formerly Listed as:
CHILDERDITCH STREET
The Fruit Farm)

II

House. Late medieval and C17. Timber-framed, part
weatherboard, part render and part brick. Low pitched gabled
slate roof with substantial central ridge line stack. 2
single-storey lean-to extensions on rear where main eaves line
varies in height. Shallow projecting stair tower on rear. Of 2
storeys but ground slopes away to rear. Patterned pargeted
panels on upper part of rear elevation.
INTERIOR: N part of house has remains of late medieval, former
jettied cross-wing with cambered tie-beam. This was enclosed
in early-mid-C17 to form regular box frame 2-storey dwelling.
The rear of this has projecting lean-to roofed stair tower,
the winder stair and central newel post of which survives.
Contemporary central stack with salt cupboard recess. Framing
generally of good quality but some elm. C19 replacement roof
with remnants of C17 rafters still in situ. Floor over former
cross-wing suggests this was a former 3-storey.

Listing NGR: TQ6154690010

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501116

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5