Description

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING
TQ 6499
723-1/14/411
20/02/76 ROMAN ROAD, Ingatestone
(South East Side)
Nos 5-8 (consec) Ginge Petre
Almshouses and Chapel (Formerly
Listed as: BRENTWOOD, ROMAN ROAD
Ingatestone Ginge Petre Almshouses)
GV II

Terrace of almshouses and Roman Catholic chapel. 1840. Renovated in 1978 by Trehearne and Norman Preston. Red birck with black headers in diaper patterns and, dressings of gault brick, roofed with fishscale slates. One terrace of 4 almshouses facing NW, with chapel in centre, forming the rear of a quadrangle enclosed in 2 sides by other terrances. Tudor Revival Style.
Single storey. Nos 5 and 8 (at the ends) each have 2 original cast-iron
latticed casement windows, with chamfered jambs and segmental arches, and a central boarded door with verical moulded fillets, and chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch of gault brick. Nos 6 & 7 are sunukarm but each have only one window. Dogtooth eaves course. The black headers are glazed. Diagonal
chimney shafts of red and black bricks in 1-2-2-1 arrangements. Ridge tiles
of red clay. The gables have copings and kneelers of gault brick.
The left gable end has 3 buttresses of red brick, covering the diaper pattern. The right gable end is not buttressed with a diaper pattern all over, but a
small area is repaired with Flettons. The diaper pattern continues on the original reat elevation. The rear windows are C20 casements.
The chapel had a gable wall standing one brick forward of the remainder of
the front elevation, with 2 smaller windows in similar style, a similar
central door, and a corbelled bell-turret without a bell.
INTERIOR: Retangular and plain, with a coved ceiling, a central panel
outlined by plaster mouldings, and 2 plaster roses in the middle;the larger, upper rose is whitem the smaller lower rose is painted red. Rear extensions
of red brick with slate roofs to Nos 6 and 7 meet beind the chapel.

Listing NGR: TQ6475899252

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502897

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