Description

TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, MARKET HEATH

15/49 The Crescent

II

Row of 4 small houses. Early C19 with late C19/early C20 bay windows.
Flemish bond brick with blue headers to the ground floor, first floor tile-
hung; slate roof; brick stacks.

Plan: The range faces approximately south and fronts the road. The front
block is narrow and single depth, the rooms heated from axial stacks; heated
rear wings at right angles.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front, curving slightly inwards
towards the centre of the range. Roof hipped at left end, gabled at right
end. Stacks with brick shafts with corbelled brick cornices. The left hand
house is entered on the left return. The adjacent house to the right has a
C19 panelled front door to right of centre with a gabled porch on posts. The
centre house has a half-glazed front door to the left; the right hand house
has a panelled C19 front door with a late porch on brackets. 5 first floor 4-
pane plate glass sash windows; 4 ground floor canted bay windows with plate
glass 4-pane sashes in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights.

Interior: Not inspected.

The Crescent is shown in a late C19 photograph published in A Victorian
Pictorial Record of Brenchlev and Matfield (n.d., c.1988). The bay windows
have replaced sashes shown in this photograph.

Listing NGR: TQ6732741863

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541255

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)