Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 HIGH STREET
723-1/12/65 (South side)
21/10/58 No.12

II

House, now offices. Mid-C18. Red brick with burnt headers, C20
clay tiled mansard roof. Rectangular plan with C19 and C20
additions to rear and E end. These additions are not of
special interest and are not included in this listing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic, stack at both E and W ends.
Front, N elevation, 5 bays with central door having a pair of
relatively narrow windows above, all plain C19 with horns, 4
on ground floor, 6 on first floor. Parapet with cyma moulded
cornice. Central doorway has a flat headed Doric porch with
reeded and panelled reveals. Door 2-leaved, each leaf has 3
panels, semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars, door
and porch are all early C19. Ground-floor windows have
individual C18 iron guard rails decorated with central
rosettes and curls at top and bottom. At E end, C19 flat
headed porch projects to E, doorway, on N front with similar
fanlight to central porch. 3 segment-headed dormers behind
parapet, sashes similar to others on elevation. Rear, S
elevation, much obscured by later additions. One
segment-headed window on first floor with glazing bars, 3x4
panes, 3 flat headed dormers of 3 lights each, one light now a
door. E end elevation, C19 ground floor extension, further
extended in C20 to three quarters of house depth. 4
segment-headed windows, 2 ground floor, 2 first floor, glazing
bars, 3x4 panes. W end elevation now much obscured. A C20
railing set on a dwarf wall protects the front.
INTERIOR has no exposed features.

Listing NGR: TQ5964893843

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584830

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)