Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ69SW RAYLEIGH ROAD, Hutton 723-1/9/205 (North side) 21/10/58 No.428 Hutton House

GV II

House. Dated on waterhead 1746, C19, C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, peg-tiled mansard roof, gable end stacks. L-shaped plan of 2 parallel and one right angled range, now infilled in C20 making rectangular outline. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic. Front, S elevation of 5 window range, rusticated brick quoins, parapet with coping above brick cornice. Ground-floor central wooden Tuscan doorcase with columns supporting a triglyph frieze and dentilled pediment. Door reworked with central glazed panel. C19 3-cant bay window each side with cornice, parapet and coping, and horned sash windows to each cant. First floor, 5 sash windows with deep exposed sash boxes, central one with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, others simple with single vertical glazing bar. 3 gabled dormer windows. Sun fire insurance mark. Rear, N elevation, 2 parallel ranges visible as rear C19 build is lower than C18 roof, also mansard gable end of return C18 wing with central stack on W side. On E side C19 single-storey building aligned N-S, linked to house, peg-tiled roof, walls mainly rendered. Oven and stack, both external at N gable end. Ground floor of house and W wing obscured by C20 work not of special interest and not included in this listing. C19 range has central hips to roof to allow sight line through from hip roofed dormer in C18 attic. Also, hipped dormer to E side of mansard roof of W range. First floor - C19 range, pebble dash rendered with simple sash window. To W, round headed sash stair window with glazing bars, broad central and narrow margin panes. E end elevation - principal C18 mansard gable with lesser C19 gable at rear with shaped coping - central stack on both. 2-storey 4-window range with segmental arched heads. 4 window range, 3 windows with glazing bars, 2x4 panes and one with replaced horned sashes, 4 blind windows. Water head dated 1746 and initials D-D M-D. W end elevation, mansard gable end to S with central stack. String course and parapet above first floor of W wing. Irregular fenestration due to internal alterations. All window openings segment headed, 3 blocked in C18 gable end wall, one on ground floor moved towards N - sash with glazing bars, 2x4 panes. Range to N has one ground and one first-floor window with glazing bars, 5x4 panes, approximately central doorway raised and cut into blocked stair window immediately above, 6-panelled door with 3-light fanlight. C20 external stair to door. Behind parapet, one segment headed dormer window with 2 casement lights also simple sky light. Dated and initialled water head to front of C18 block, similar to one on E end elevation. INTERIOR: considerable rebuilding done about 1980. Ground floor rooms re-organised, no historic features remain. Stair of simple open string form with Tuscan newel posts and elegant shaped handrail with terminal volute, balusters with turned decoration also matching stair dado. Elliptical stair arch with keystone, also fanlight of 5 lights. Several first floor rooms have shallow C18 panelling and recessed windows with seats. Back stair pitch reduced in C20 alterations and now emerges on W side through raised doorway in W elevation. C18 garden wall is attached to front SW corner of house, in red brick, 1.5m high with shaped coping bricks, curves round to enclose front garden with quadrant including a gateway of 16m, short 3.2m straight section, bow of approx 17m. Somewhat irregular Flemish bond, rendered plinth, coping bricks of different pattern each side of gateway, to N with roll and hollow mouldings, to S simply straight coped form. Gate piers plain with stone caps. The House, with stable and coach house (qv), and rear garden wall (qv) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ6408594835

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