Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE SANDPIT LANE, Pilgrims Hatch
723-1/8/261 (East side)
21/10/58 Langtons
(Formerly Listed as:
SANDPIT LANE, South Weald
Langtons)

II

House. Mid-C16, early C17, C18, C19. Red brick, peg-tiled
roof. Original rectangular plan with irregular rear additions
creating a cluster of units both of `L' and parallel block
form.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic. Front, W elevation early C18 red
brick, with burnt headers. Principal stack to S of centre,
second stack on N end gable. 9 narrow bays, central door,
giant terminal pilasters and 2 similar pilasters framing
central 3 bays. All windows are segment headed, with aprons on
the first floor, flush cased, moulded frames with horned
sashes with glazing bars, 2x4 panes. From N-S, windows of bay
3 blind, first-floor window bay 7 blocked. Front doorway with
open pediment and semicircular fan-light with radial glazing
bars, door has 6 bolection moulded panels. Door-case appears
to be renewed as marks on the wall on either side indicate
wider doorcase once. Rear, E elevation, complex, principal
feature C17 rear wing gable end, timber-framed, now brick
infilled, with side wall of C19 gabled addition to N. Also C19
2-storeyed narrow projection central on C17 gable with a C19
stack on S angle. N-S of this group, ground floor, casement
window with segment head, glazing bars, 4x2 panes, simple
brick lean-to, peg-tiled with casement window, 2x2 panes and
C20 door, glazed with glazing bars, 2x3 panes. In 2 storey
projection, round headed casement window with glazing bars,
3x2 panes. First floor, under gable, 2-light casement with
glazing bars, 4x3 panes. S of gable all weatherboarded. Stair
tower to front block with first-floor sash window with glazing
bars, 4x4 panes, in front, ground floor projecting flat roofed
addition angled back to S with two 2-light casement windows
with glazing bars, 4x4 panes and simple 3-paned narrow window.
To S C19 one and a half storey addition - gable end to S with
C19 door, 2 lower panels and 2 glazed upper ones, also second
simple 3-paned narrow window. Gabled dormer in roof above with
2-light casement with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. Lesser stack
behind roof apex. Principal house stack and roof behind lower
range. N end elevation, double brick end gables, E and W. W
end gable has various brick phases - in particular C17
brickwork to E with straight joint to C18 walling to W. C19
brickwork above, ground floor segment headed casement window
with glazing bars, 2x2 panes, attic window, segment headed
simple 2-light casement. C19 E gable block projects with
central projecting stack, 4 similar C19 segment headed sash
windows, 2 on ground floor and 2 on first floor. S gable end
elevation, mainly weatherboarded, principal block to W and one
and a half storey addition projecting to E. W end gable. Front
brick wall with pilaster to W side. Ground floor C20 French
window with upper glazed fan-light, pantiled lean-to pentice,
first-floor sash window with moulded architrave, glazing bars,
3x4 panes. E one and a half storey block, central sash window
with side lights, glazing bars, 1x2, 2x4, 2x2 panes, stack on
W side.
INTERIOR shows several phases, (1) Mid-C16 principal joists in
ground floor ceiling with step stops, framed round principal
stack, fireplaces renewed but probably 3-celled lobby entrance
house, one binding joist of chimney bay with chamfer stop set
well within house and filled soffit joint implies a long
jettied frontage originally. (2) Early C17. Stair tower with
stumps of original newel posts under phase (3) ones.
Timber-framed rear wing added towards N end with jowled post,
bladed scarf joint in wall plate and butt side purlin roof.
When this rear wing was added the back wall of the original
block was removed on the first floor between the blocks and a
corridor contrived with Jacobean dado with strapwork frieze. A
few stud posts left for support are plastered as classical
pilasters. First floor ceiling of rooms either side of stack
re-built with lambs' tongue chamfer stops. Fragment of early
C17 panelling on ground floor, also N end of original block
partly rebuilt in brick. (3) Early C18. Complete refurbishment
in brick, 9 bay frontage, windows with shutters and panelled
reveals, stair with shaped handrail and turned balusters
inserted into stair tower. Principal rooms panelled. Back
stairs inserted into NW angle of C17 rear wing. Fitted curved
corner cupboard in central room probably contemporary. (4) C19
additions to rear, set round stair tower leaving exterior
weatherboarding exposed inside house. C19 end extensions to
rear range projecting beyond house at both N and S ends. Some
panelling in the house is simple and could be C19. Sun and
Phoenix (Royal Exchange) fire insurance marks on front wall.
The wide framing of the joists round the stack together with
the early C16 date of phase (1) suggests that the house may
have had a timber chimney in the C16, replaced by the brick
one in the early C17. This would help to explain the later
date of the first floor ceiling round the stack.

Listing NGR: TQ5787394859

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584807

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Recommended Books

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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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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)