Description

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING
TQ6499 ROMAN ROAD, Ingatestone
723-1/14/411 (South East side)
20/02/76 Nos.5-8 (consec) Ginge Petre
Almshouses and Chapel
(Formerly Listed as: I
BRENTWOOD
ROMAN ROAD, Ingatestone
Ginge Petre Almshouses)
GV II

Terrace of almshouses and Roman Catholic chapel. 1840. Renovated in 1978 by Trehearne and Norman Preston. Red brick with black headers in diaper patterns, and dressings ot-gaurt brick, roofed with fishscale .slates. One terrace of 4 almshouses facing NW, with chapel in centre, forming the rear of a quadrangle enclosed on 2 sides by other terraces. Tudor Revival style.
Single storey. Nos 5 & 8 (at the ends) each have 2 original cast-iron latticed casement windows, with chamfered jambs and segmental arches, and a central boarded door with vertical moulded fillets, and chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch of gault brick. Nos 6 & 7 are similar, but each have only one window. Dogtooth eaves course. The black headers are glazed. Diagonal chimney shafts
of red and black bricks in 1-2-2-1 arrangement. Ridge tiles of red clay. The gables have copings and kneelers of gault brick. The left gable end has 3 buttresses of red brick, covering the diaper pattern. The right gable end is
not buttressed, with a diaper pattern all over, but a small area is repaired
with Flettons. The diaper pattern continues on the original rear elevation.
The rear windows are C20 casements.
The chapel has a gable wall standing one brick forward of the remainder of
the front elevation, with 2 smaller windows in similar style, a similar
central door, and a corbelled bell-turret without a bell.
INTERIOR: rectangular and plain, with a coved ceiling, a central panel
outlined by plaster mouldings, and 2 plaster roses in the middle; the larger, upper rose is white, the smaller, lower rose is painted red. Rear extensions
of red brick with slate roofs to Nos 6 & 7 meet behind the chapel.

Listing NGR: TQ6475599277

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26683322

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