Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ68NW TILBURY ROAD, East Horndon
723-1/11/129 (East side (off))
20/02/76 Dunton Hills

II

House with cottage attached. C17, c1800, C20. Black brick with
red brick dressings and diapering at N end. Rear and cottage
much restored in C20 red brick and weatherboarding. Peg-tiled
hipped roofs. Plan, L-shaped, principal N-S range with smaller
rear parallel range on E side and N end lean-to with cottage
projecting E. W front elevation c1800.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attics with brick pilaster buttresses
at N & S and at S reinforced by later battered buttress. 7
principal bays and 6 original window range, all principal
windows sashes 4x4 panes, thin glazing bars, some old glass.
Ground floor voussoir segment heads. Smaller C20 2x2 paned
sashes intruded at N end on both floors. Central bay, C20
front doorway and door; dentilled gabled head, fluted jambs,
fielded panelled door, decorative red brick pattern above. 3
equally spaced hipped pegtiled dormer windows with C20 double
casements 2x2 panes. Principle stack off centre towards N,
also end stacks through roof hip pitches. N end has lean-to
wall c1800 with some burnt brick. S end continued by
conservatory. Rear E elevation - total rebuilding in C20 with
windows of wood and metal casements with rectangular leaded
panes. Centre - principal range with catslide roof over rear
lean-to. To S 2-storeyed block behind front range with own
hipped roof. To N, 2-storeyed cottage wing extending to E. S
block ground floor, 2 boarded doors with bull's-eye light, one
with simple head. 2 single and 2 double casement windows.
Battered buttress at S end. First floor weatherboarded,
windows - one double casement, 2 triple casements and one of
cross form. Centre, lean-to wall has 2 double casements and a
large 8x4 paned fixed window. Above, through roof pitch, one
double casement hipped roofed dormer, adjacent, protruding
hipped roof stair tower; weatherboarded with rear casement
window. Principal house stack at roof apex. Cottage wing S
elevation irregular fenestration all of C20 rebuild, similar
windows to rest of ground floor, one single casement, one of 3
casements; first floor 2 of 2 casements one of 3 casements.
Cottage wing E elevation, plain gabled wall with exterior
stack, said to wholly be of C20. N end elevation, similar to
rear in that considerably rebuilt in C20 with windows same as
on rear elevation. Hipped roof of principal range continues
down as catslide, stack through centre. Below, boarded door
with bull's-eye. 3 double casement windows to N principal
cottage elevation. Ground floor, boarded door with bull's-eye
and single casement window; first floor windows one of 2
casements one of 3 casements. Roof peg tiled as rest. C20
weatherboarded gable at the S end. S end elevation twin hipped
ends of principal and rear range. Battered buttresses on E & W
sides. c1800 black brick stack through principal roof pitch,
plain exterior stack to rear block. Principal front unit has
C20 ground floor French windows now covered by C20
conservatory. First floor two C20, 2x2 paned top hung casement
windows.
INTERIOR: principal range, considerably rebuilt in c1800 and
C20. Binding joists on ground and first floor survive from
first build of early C17, as joists have chamfered tops with
typical additional rear notch. Original house timber-framed
(some rear wall studding exposed), of 3 cells. Original stack
site preserved by present one within house. Rear C17 stair
tower frame remains now extended to E and containing C20
stair. Attics now ceiled but have appropriate form of C17 with
high collars to enable use of roof space. Rear block has
ground floor internal studded walling of C17. Lean-to along
back of house. N end lean-to has high lintelled fireplace and
was probably also timber-framed (it is said to have been the
bakehouse). Cottage wing similarly has simple internal
timber-frame, with first floor C17 straight corner
down-braces. c1800, symmetrical brick frontage added with
creation of central hall and principal rooms each side. The
thickness of the front brick wall obscures the C17 chamfer
stops on the early joists, they are only seen at the back of
the house. Of the c1800 build several cast-iron fire grates
survive, both on ground and first floors. C20 alterations
include widening of principal rooms on ground floor by
extending into rear range (with necessary suspension of old
upper framing). Also, much renewed interior woodwork using
reeded moulding for door surrounds and detail.

Listing NGR: TQ6416688695

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503329

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