Description

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW ROMAN ROAD
723-1/6/232 (North West side)
20/02/76 No.358
Woolwards
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
ROMAN ROAD, Mountnessing
(North West side)
No.358
Woolwards)

II

House. c1600 and C18, extended in C19 and C20. Timber-framed,
with C18 cladding of red and blue bricks in Flemish bond,
roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 3 bays
facing SSE, with original stack to left of right bay, behind
axis, forming a lobby-entrance, and C20 axial internal stack
at left end. C18 parallel range to rear of right half, and C19
single-storey lean-to extension to rear of remainder.
Cross-wing to left, extending forwards, and single-storey
section to rear of it, 1970.
One storey with attics. Three C20 sashes in early C19 style,
and 3 more in gabled dormers. C20 door, an accurate replica of
the early C19 door it replaced, in early C19 wooden doorcase
with reeded pilasters and unusual pattern of reeding above.
C18 moulded wooden eaves cornice at front. There is a straight
joint between the first brick facade, and the cladding at the
right side which overlaps it, but is continuous with the
construction of the parallel range; otherwise similar in
style, both C18.
INTERIOR: the 2 right bays have chamfered axial beams with
lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section
jointed to them with soffit tenons with diminished haunches.
In the middle bay the beam has been severed for an inserted
stair. Some joists have been replaced in machine-sawn hardwood
since 1979. Wide wood-burning hearth facing to right
substantially rebuilt since 1979, with renewed mantel beam.
Similar hearth facing to left retains original mantel, beam,
re-bricked at sides. The left bay has a chamfered transverse
beam with runout stops, and C20 moulding and joists. Between
the left and middle bays an original storey post is rebated
for a door. Face-halved and bladed scarf in rear wallplate.
The original trusses are of arch-braced collar construction,
without tie-beams. 2 thin tie-beams have been lap-dovetailed
to the principal rafters at a later date, both severed for
inserted doorways. Clasped purlins with straight wind-braces.
An early C19 fire surround with reeded jambs and reeded
pattern above, identical in style with the doorcase, is loose
in an ancillary building, and may be re-fitted at the left
fireplace, which is a C20 reconstruction of an earlier hearth
and stack. Restoration and renovation since 1979 executed by K
Tredgett of Brentwood.

Listing NGR: TQ6250797231

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584776

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)