Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ6291 CRICKETERS LANE, Herongate
723-1/13/186 (North East side)
20/02/76 No.41

II

House. Early C18, extended in mid-C19 and C20. Timber-framed,
weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slate.
Main range facing SW, with original external stack at left end
and C19 smaller external stack at right end. Mid-C19 parallel
range of the same length to rear, with axial internal stack at
left end. C19 long single-storey lean-to extension to left of
both ranges, enclosing the stack of the front range. C19 long
single-storey lean-to extension to right of front range,
enclosing the stack. Small single-storey wing to rear centre,
and C20 conservatory beyond.
2 storeys. Ground floor, one splayed bay of C20 sashes at
front of C19 square bay, and one C20 sash of 8+8 lights. First
floor, one early C19 sash of 8+8 lights at left, with handmade
glass, and C20 equivalent at right. Central C20 half-glazed
door with flat canopy on profiled brackets. Replica Sun
firemark attached to top left of front elevation. Roof of
front range hipped, tiled; roof of rear range gabled, clad
with unusual grey slates. The left lean-to has one C20 sash;
the right lean-to had double vehicle doors; both have slate
roofs. The rear elevation of the parallel range has on the
ground floor one C20 casement and 2 mid-C19 sashes with long
vertical panes; the first floor has 3 similar sashes. The left
lean-to has at the rear one early/mid-C19 sash of 8+8 lights.
INTERIOR: the right front ground-floor room has a chamfered
hardwood axial beam and exposed plain joists of vertical
section. The left front ground-floor room has two C19 scrolled
corbels supporting the lintel of the first inserted bay, and
an introduced early C19 cast-iron reeded fireplace and
ducknest grate, in an original hearth. The left lean-to has a
C19 plain white marble fireplace and cast-iron grate. The left
front first-floor room has an attached C19 corner cupboard
with 3 profiled shelves, straight head and 4 original doors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the original construction is dated to 1736 by
an entry in the court rolls recording the enclosure of 39 rods
of Ingrave Common, and by a coin of the same date. From 1839
to c1906 this building was a beerhouse, `The Cricketers',
which gave its name to the lane; the left extension was the
ballroom.

Listing NGR: TQ6285691332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584863

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings