Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ69NW CHELMSFORD ROAD, Shenfield
723-1/6/264 (North West side)
20/02/76 No.110
Elm Cottage

II

Cottage. C16, c1700, early C19, C20. Timber-framed on brick
sill with weatherboard, thatched roof, hipped at N end. Plan,
rectangular with 2 units. To S, main house with red brick
stack towards S end, to N, smaller secondary addition with
central red brick stack, same width but eaves and roof apex
lower and thatch swept over resulting in a step in roof line.
EXTERIOR: C20 refurbishment has renewed all windows and some
weatherboard, however, windows kept to original scale and
weatherboarding blended in with irregularities on underlying
structure. Single-storeyed. W front elevation, S principal
unit, C19 boarded door with flush beaded moulding with one
window to S, 2 to N. N sub-unit single similar door with
window to N. All windows are 2-light casements with single
horizontal glazing bar, 2x2 panes. Rear, E elevation, S unit
has single 2-light casement, each casement with glazing bars,
2x2 panes, 4x2 in all. 2 smaller similar windows in N
sub-unit. S end elevation has a single 2-light casement window
with horizontal glazing bars, 2x2 panes. N end elevation in
plain weatherboarding with central C20 boarded door.
INTERIOR: principal block, single-storey framing of c1700
prevalent, primary braced, some reused timber, 3 principal bay
trusses, at centre and at each end, early-mid C16 with jowled
posts. N end truss and wall plates most informative, once
having central arched braces to tie-beam and internal arched
braces traversing wall studding above a middle rail (similarly
found in contemporary buildings in the Epping area). Redundant
mortice for middle rail implies another bay at N end on site
of present lower end unit. Slots for wattling of transverse
partition. N end unit is later than principal block, having
more evenly squared sawn timber, probably early C19. Roof
rafter couples rebuilt in C19 in softwood. S stack has single
early C19 segment headed fireplace. N stack has 2 back-to-back
fireplaces, to S all now C20, to N with early C19 wooden
fire-surround. The house is the simplest dwelling of C16
origin in the Brentwood District to survive and represents a
class of houses frequently to be seen on maps of the time but
now virtually all gone.
(Edwards AC and Newton KC: The Walkers of Hanningfield:
1984-).

Listing NGR: TQ6104595669

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584856

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