Description

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TQ59NE DUDBROOK ROAD
723-1/5/488 (South side)
27/08/52 Bois Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
DUDBROOK ROAD, Navestock
Bois Hall)

II

House. Late C17/early C18. Red brick, Flemish bond with
remains of tuck pointing, roof peg-tiled.
EXTERIOR: flat gauged brick arches over windows, moulded
cornice, plinth and string course. 2 storey and attics
concealed behind parapet. 1:3:1 window range, flush sashes
with glazing bars, 12 panes. Central range articulated with a
3-light first-floor window over a Tuscan pillared porch with
dentilled cornice. Door with 6 panels, upper 4 sunk, lower 2
flush. Screen walls with shaped coping project at each side.
Wall to left curved from house down to simple gateway with
square piers (C20 iron gate). Ends of screen walls terminate
in small red brick outbuildings with hipped tiled roofs and
dentilled eaves cornices (now used as garages). The house was
L-shaped but the rear SE range has been truncated and the back
of the house rebuilt in 1953 revealing a double gabled roof
and leaving 2 pilasters, one on each side at the point of
truncation. The NE elevation is of the same type as the facade
but a straight joint in the brickwork at the N corner suggests
2 building phases (successively replacing an earlier
structure?). The windows on the NE show replacement with
horned sashes and a C20 casement. The SW angle of the house
shows the junction of the 2 wings and in the internal angle a
large stack projecting externally is built at the rear of the
front block.
INTERIOR: much altered but one bedroom has C18 pine fielded
panelling with a dentilled cornice. Attic stair has
barleysugar banisters and moulded handrail c1700. The N front
once had 2 moulded rainwater heads with the arms and crests of
Greene and the date 1687 (RCHM) These have been removed and
replaced by plain ones in the course of extensive restoration
1974-9. The house is shown in a painting of 1636 in Essex
Record Office as a double cranked building with Dutch gabled
attics and mullioned and transomed windows. Old ruined garden
wall remains to SE of house but it is not possible to relate
this to the picture. At roof level the house is tied together
by many C20 steel rods which may indicate that it had been
rebuilt incorporating parts of an earlier structure.
(RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 6: 193; The Buildings
of England: Pevsner N: Essex: 1965-: 304; Morant P: The
History and Antiquities of the County of Essex: 1768-: 183).

Listing NGR: TQ5561898242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491805

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas