Description

TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD BRICK KILN GREEN
(east side)

1/135 Littleacres

GV II*

Wrongly shown on OS map as Brickels House. House. C.1570, altered in C20.
Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing
SE, with axial stack in second bay from left end. C18/C19 lean-to extension at
rear, absorbed into C20 wing and lean-to extensions each side. 2 storeys.
Ground floor, 2 C20 oriels. First floor, 3 C20 casements. Plain boarded door
in gabled porch, C20. Original sprockets below eaves. Under-built jetty with
groove for sliding shutters at right end. Chamfered axial and transverse beams
with well-cut lamb's tongue stops, early examples of their use. Plain joists of
horizontal section. Blocked stair trap in rear left corner. Jowled posts,
close studding with curved braces trenched to the inside. Blocked window with
shutter groove in rear right corner, probably with mullions still present.
Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Crownpost roof with thin axial
braces to right of stack, the collar-purlin chamfered with step stops. Clasped
purlin roof to left of stack. Large wood-burning hearth of 0.33 metre brickwork
facing right, original. Smaller C17 wood-burning hearth of 0.23 metre brickwork
facing left with curved back and wrought iron trammel. Original rebated
floorboards. The combination of lamb's tongue stops on the beams with step
stops in the crownpost roof is of unusual interest, and permits a close dating
(J. McCann, The Introduction of the Lamb's Tongue Stop, Historic Buildings in
Essex 2, 1985). This house has an unusually complete range of original interior
features. RCHM 59.

Listing NGR: TL7358231571

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557868

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)