Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ5793 WIGLEY BUSH LANE, South Weald
723-1/16/299 (East side)
21/10/58 Nos.1-10 (consec) Browne's Charity
Almshouses and Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
VICARAGE LANE, South Weald
(East side)
The Almshouses (Browne's Charity))

II

Formerly known as: The Almshouses South Weald Village.
Almshouses. 1858. By S Teulon. Red brick with stone dressings
to windows and doors, peg-tiled roof. Long group, stepped down
along Wigley Bush Lane. Plan comprises 10 cottage units in a
row with central chapel with axis at right angles, group
breaks forward roughly symmetrically each side of chapel and N
and S end cottages have axes at right angles to create
prominent gable ends as belvederes with ornamental figures in
Gothic niches. A classical composition with Gothic detail.
Well head, free standing, set at break forward, S of chapel.
Cottage units single storey, with one large and one smaller
room, expressed with 3-light and 2-light casement windows,
front door between. Windows have mullions and transoms with
diamond leaded panes. Doors boarded with iron work in arched
doorhead with rectangular surround. Roof steep and eaves
carried forward on brackets to create a pentice. Stack at each
gable end. Chapel W gable end, buttressed angles, 3-light
window in 2-centred arch with geometrical tracery, head stops
to labels and lifted string course below framing. Cross and
lozenges in burnt headers. Well head octagonal with pierced
trefoiled lights containing a pump with date. Frieze with text
from Proverbs below pointed roof.
INTERIOR of typical house has narrow larder in line with front
door and larger principal room with inscription on fireplace
lintel. Bedroom undecorated. At rear, kitchen out-shut
projects into house yard, free standing WC set away from back
door in yard. The original arrangement of the rear of the
houses now obscured in some units due to C20 rebuilding and
addition encroaching and virtually filling some of the yards.

Listing NGR: TQ5715193611

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491740

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990