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)

II

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584877

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