Description

BLACKMORE

TL6001 BLACKMORE ROAD 723-1/15/2 (South side) 20/02/76 Walnut Tree Cottage and Trees Cottage (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD BLACKMORE ROAD, Blackmore Walnut Tree Cottages)

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House, now 2 houses. c1600, extended in C18 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade and machine-made red clay tiles. EXTERIOR: 4-bays facing NW with axial stack in second bay from left end, originally forming a lobby entrance plan, entrance now blocked. Extended to right by one bay in C18, with axial stack at the junction. C19 weatherboarded building of 2 storeys, forming a parallel range with central stack, behind left end, incorporated in Trees Cottage, and single-storey ancillary range beyond. C19 outshut to rear of remainder, with catslide roof, and truncated external stack to right of it, cement rendered. C20 single-storey extension in front of and to left of left end, built as a cafe, now incorporated in Trees Cottage. 2 storeys. Walnut Tree Cottage comprises the ground floor to right of the middle of the main stack, and on the first floor the 3 right bays; Trees Cottage comprises the part to left. All windows are C20 casements except three C18 3-light windows on the first floor front to right of Walnut Tree House, each with one wrought-iron casement, and one C18 fixed light of 12 rectangular leaded panes with original saddle bars above the cafe extension, included in Walnut Tree House. C20 doors. C20 pargeting, with renewed coved eaves cornice on front elevation only. 2 gabled dormers in rear catslide. Walnut Tree Cottage is roofed with handmade tiles, Trees Cottage with machine-made tiles. Jowled posts, heavy studding with primary straight bracing, cambered tie-beams. INTERIOR: Walnut Tree Cottage: the wide ground-floor hearth to right of the main stack has a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. The floor structure of this bay is original, with chamfered axial beam with unusual convex stops and plain joists of horizontal section. Initials EBM inscribed in dirt in front of hearth. Studded partition between this and the original service room removed. 4 diamond mortices for a former unglazed window to rear of service room, appropriate for a dairy, but at this date all other windows would have been glazed originally. The floor structure of this bay has been rebuilt in the late C17, with a chamfered axial beam with long lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section. The hearth to left of the right stack has been rebricked in the C20, now containing a cast-iron kitchen range in working order. C20 grate to right. The right ground-floor room has chamfered transverse beam with convex stops, joists plastered. Plain boarded and ledged pine door between this and the original service room, probably contemporary with the C18 extension. On the first floor 2 down braces to the rear storey posts have been severed to form a corridor. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates. INTERIOR: Trees Cottage is much altered on the ground floor. Original chamfered axial beam with convex stops, plain joists of vertical section. Most of the studding of the front wall is replaced. Hearths on ground floor and first floor rebuilt, the latter in early C17 style. The tithe map and award of 1846, and the First Edition OS map of 1873, show this building as divided into 4 cottages. (Essex Record Office: Tithe Map: 1846-: D/CT 37).

Listing NGR: TL6016201753

External Links

• Wikidata Q26584877

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