Description

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING
TL6OSW MILL GREEN ROAD
723-1/2/549 (South West side)
07 /12/92 Maygotts

GV II

House. Early C15, extended in C20. Timber-framed, plastered,
roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay cross-wing facing
NE, of hall house formerly extending to NW C20 extension to
rear, single-storey lean-to to left, and series of C20
extensions to right bringing the whole to an irregular half-H
plan.
2 storeys. All windows are C20 casements. C20 door at front of
gabled porch. The roof has a gablet hip to the rear, enclosed
by the C20 extension.
INTERIOR: jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces
trenched to the outside. To rear of the middle left post, on
the lower storey, 2 studs have been removed to make a doorway,
and one stud and 2 grown knees have been introduced. Grooves
for sliding shutters in the soffits of the bressumer and front
tie-beam, blocked with plaster. In the right wall, on the
lower storey, original doorway immediately behind front corner
post, with chamfered 3-centered arched head, and mortice and
former draught screen in rear doorpost. 2 studs removed to
make a later doorway. Carpenters' assembly marks number this
series from I to X, front to back, including the middle post
as V, with a gap for a blocked original doorway at the far
end. Heavy joists of horizontal section jointed to the binding
beam with unrefined central tenons, complete except for one
replaced joist at rear left; blocked original stair strap
against right wall immediately to rear of binding beam, which
has mortices and a wattle groove for a former partition
between the bays. Cambered tie-beam, arched braces to it
missing. Crownpost roof complete. Plain square crownpost with
2 arched axial braces to collar-purlin in front bay, tenoned
to hip rafter at rear. The form of this cross-wing is unusual,
in that the evidence of a former partition between the bays on
the ground floor may suggest that it was a service wing, but
the positions of the 2 doorways and draught screen indicate
that it must have been the parlour/solar wing, divided for a
reason unknown, perhaps because the missing service end was
used for a shop or trading purpose.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this house is recorded in the Petre archives
as Maggots. A survey of 1556 gives the length as 40 feet (5
feet longer than the present house), 18 feet wide (the
cross-wing is 18 feet 6 inches long internally, measured on
the ground floor), and 9 feet high to the eaves (which must be

of the former hall range), with a partly tiled roof. It had a

detached kitchen with a tiled roof, 20 x 13 x 7 feet high to

the eaves, a thatched barn 33 x 13 x 7 feet high to the eaves,

a thatched barn 33 x 13 x 8 feet to the eaves, and a holding

of 16 acres. It is mentioned in court rolls in 1570,1578,1579

and 1601. It is illustrated in the Walker map of 1601 as a low

hall range with central door and brick chimney, one window to

each side, and a 2-storey cross-wing to left, the roofs tiled,

then with a holding of 19 acres.
(Essex Record Office: D/DP M.170, M.96-101).

Listing NGR: TL6386601010

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502870

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