Description

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW ROMAN ROAD
723-1/6/470 (North West side)
No.320
Toby House

II

House. Early C19, extended in C19. Gault and red brick in
Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Rectangular plan facing SE,
with an internal stack at the left side, and external stacks
at the right side and at rear left. A later C19 wing to rear
centre, partly covering an original window, connects the house
to a formerly separate stable range parallel with the axis,
forming an H-plan; the stable range has been raised to 2
storeys. C20 single-storey lean-to extension in bay to left,
enclosing the rear stack.
2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 pairs of French windows with
marginal lights. First floor, 3 sashes with marginal lights.
Central half-glazed door with coloured marginal lights;
plaster doorcase comprising fluted pilasters and moulded
cornice. A full-width tented canopy of zinc on cast-iron
stanchions encloses the front door and French windows; many of
the stanchions are broken. Low-pitched roof with wide
overhanging eaves and paired brackets at front and both sides.
The front elevation and the left elevation (facing the
approach from London and Brentwood) are of gault bricks; at
the right the gault facade projects slightly, and the
remainder is of red brick. In the left elevation is a
half-glazed door with marginal lights opening into a C20
conservatory (replacing an earlier conservatory), and one
original sash of 8+8 lights on the ground floor, 2 on the
first floor, all with segmental brick arches. The right
elevation has on the ground floor 2 original round casements,
and on the first floor one original sash of 6+6 lights with
crown glass and one C20 casement. The right elevation of the
rear wing is weatherboarded on the first floor only; it has on
the ground floor one C19 casement and on the first floor one
original sash of 8+8 lights with crown glass re-sited. The
stable range has at the rear one original halved door, and C20
metal casements.
INTERIOR: original stair of a straight flight and a quarter
turn at the top, with moulded handrail and stick balusters.
C20 grate in left ground-floor room. Original reeded
fireplaces with paterae are reported in the right ground-floor
room and upper rooms.

Listing NGR: TQ6268697433

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581155

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)