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

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