Description

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TQ5893 WEALD ROAD 723-1/12/125 (West side) 20/02/76 Weald House

II

House. C18, C19, C20. Red brick with peg-tiled mansard roof behind parapet, gable end chimney-stacks. Plan L-shaped, principal range and contemporary rear out-shut with C19 service block built on to rear at S end. EXTERIOR: 2 storey basement and attic. Front E elevation, facade brickwork reddened with white tuck pointing. 3 window range with slight segment heads, good voussoirs, ground and first-floor outer windows of triple sash form with glazing bars, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes, sashes horned but with C20 profile. First-floor central window similar but smaller 3x4 panes. Ground-floor central doorway approached by steps, round-headed, voussoirs with `cobweb' fanlight and door frame recessed into brickwork with bead moulding. Door has 4 recessed panes. Basement had 2 windows in rendered plinth, S one now bricked round (apparently once turned into a coal shoot), N one now has a C20 PVC 2-light casement window. Attic lit by 2 outer flat-roofed dormer windows lead covered each with 2-light casements with glazing bars, 4x2 panes. Also central plain skylight in front roof pitch. Rear W elevation, plain mansard roof and roof of 2-storey out-shut additional stack at N end through out-shut. C19 ground-floor service addition at S end has minor gable end chimney to W. Out-shut has three C20 casement windows on each floor, somewhat irregular and all in PVC with glazing bars. These replace early C20 iron casements. Ground floor, two 2-light, 4x4 panes, one 1-light 2x2 panes (central 2-light window on site of blocked backdoor to house). First floor, one 3-light 6x3 panes, one 2-light 4x3 panes, central one single light 2x2 panes. Service addition has 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. S end elevation, mansard roof gable with central stack and out-shut prominent, similar brickwork (with dispersed burnt headers) continuous through both areas, side of C19 addition to W. Ground floor, E-W, original doorway (good voussoirs) with door having upper glazing with glazing bars, 3x4 panes and single lower beaded flush panel. Inserted doorway in differing brick, splayed jambs, voussoirs well made, door early C20 iron-framed French window with fanlight, iron glazing bars, large panes. C20 PVC 3-light casement window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes. Large early C20 fully glazed French window with side lights occupying whole side wall of C19 addition. First floor, PVC 2-light casement window in old opening (good voussoirs) with glazing bars 4x5 panes. N end elevation, old block similar to S central stack and rear stack through out-shut. Ground floor E-W, lean-to garage, not of special interest and not included in this listing, (in yellow brick and weatherboard with corrugated asbestos roof) 2-light casement window with beaded frame. Casements have glazing bars, 4x3 panes, door with 4 flush beaded panels. First floor, PVC 2-light casement window in original opening (good voussoirs), glazing bars, 4x5 panes. The house underwent extensive repairs after war damage, at which time a number of windows were replaced by those with iron frames. These have been systematically replaced by PVC casements with glazing bars. INTERIOR: essentially plain. Staircase has slender shaped handrail. 2 lamb's tongue chamfer stopped binding joists in the cellar and the existence of interior studding to the front wall imply an earlier timber-framed origin in the C17, only fragments now remaining.

Listing NGR: TQ5896293872

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