Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ6291 CRICKETERS LANE, Herongate
723-1/13/184 (North East side)
21/10/58 No.27

GV II

Part of house, now a house. Late C17, extended in C18 and C19.
Timber-framed, weatherboarded and plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 2 bays facing SW, with
axial stack at right end, being part of a house originally
extending further to the right, the remainder now No.25 (qv),
late C17. Parallel range to rear, C18, and small single-storey
extension to rear right. Double-range extension to left, of
one bay, higher in both storeys than the remainder, with
central stack, c1800.
2 storeys and attic. The left part has a 2-storey splayed bay
with on the ground floor sashes of 4+4, 6+6 and 4+4 lights,
and on the first floor sashes of 4+2, 6+3 and 4+2 lights,
c1800. The right part has a 2-storey splayed bay with on each
floor sashes of 4+4, 6+6 and 4+4 lights, and on the ground
floor an additional sash of 2+2 lights to each side, in the
main wall. Approximately central half-glazed door with
marginal lights, wooden doorcase with Ionic pilasters, and
fretted frieze in the Chinese taste; later flat canopy on
chamfered wooden posts. Early C19 casement in hipped dormer.
The rear elevation of the taller part has on the ground floor
an usually large horizontal sash of 4+4 lights, and on the
first floor a sash of 6+6 lights, both c1800. The remainder
has on the first floor an early C19 sash of 8+8 lights, C19
casements elsewhere. Much handmade glass in front and rear
windows. Roof of rear right range hipped at right end.
Pump of c1800 attached to left side of rear extension, with
embossed scrolls and paterae on lead cistern, lead spout
supported by 2 twisted wrought-iron stays, rat-tail handle
with knob, mechanism complete but not in working order, wooden
case.
INTERIOR: both splayed bays and one first-floor rear sash have
original vertically sliding internal shutters, the latter
perforated with a heart, not in working order. Straight stair,
c1800, with pine handrail and stick balusters, the balustrade
forming a U on plan at the top. The front left ground-floor
room has a frieze in Adam style; at rear right an arched
recess with fluted pilasters and paterae. The room above has
at rear right an original cupboard with panelled doors on HL
hinges, and at rear left original closet doors on cockshead
hinges. The front right ground-floor room has a chamfered
transverse beam with long lamb's tongue stops, and exposed
plain joists; wide wood-burning hearth with seat recess in
right jamb. The room above has an early/mid-C19 cast-iron
grate. Clasped purlin roof. This house retains many external
and internal features of c1800, meriting careful conservation.

Listing NGR: TQ6292691245

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491681

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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