Description

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING
TQ6499 HIGH STREET, Ingatestone
723-1/14/387 (North West side)
10/04/67 No.98
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
HIGH STREET, Ingatestone
(North West side)
No.98
GV II*

House, now offices. Early C18, extended in C19/20.
Timber-framed, facade of blue bricks in header bond with red
brick dressings, remainder plastered, roofed with handmade red
clay tiles. T-plan facing SE, with a stack at the centre.
Single-storey lean-to extension in rear left angle. From the
rear right angle a series of late C19 additions extend
backwards, 2-storey and one-storey, all of red brick in
Flemish bond with hipped roofs of machine-made red clay tiles,
ending with a C20 single-storey extension with a flat roof.
2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical elevation. Ground floor, 3
altered sashes of 6+6 lights, with flat arches of gauged red
brick, the soffits and projecting keys elaborately profiled.
First floor, 4 sashes of 6+6 lights, with flat arches of
gauged red brick. 2 casements in gabled dormers. Door of 8
fielded panels with wooden doorcase comprising fluted
pilasters, moulded frieze rising to a point in the centre, and
moulded pediment. 2 stone steps with cast iron bootscraper set
in upper step. The brickwork below the ground-floor windows is
red and in Flemish bond, with a weathered brick plinth and a
rendered-cement plinth below. Raised band of rubbed red brick
immediately above the ground-floor window arches, continuing
the projection of the keys. Dentilled and moulded eaves cornice,
continuing round right return to meet the roof of the adjacent
house. Fully hipped roof. The dormers have moulded eaves cornice
and pediments. The profiled arches of the ground-floor windows
are similar to, but not identical in shape with, those at Ray
Place Farmhouse, Blackmore (qv) which: is dated by inscription
to 1721, indicating a similar date of construction and possibly
the same master mason. In the rear elevation of the original rear
wing, on the first floor, is an early C19 sash of 8+8 lights with
some crown glass.
INTERIOR: in the right front ground-floor room is an attached
corner cupboard with a full-height mahogany door of 6 fielded
panels, with reeded and jewel-moulded pilasters of later date.
At the rear of this room is a moulded archway with
semi-elliptical head, leading to the original stair, from
ground floor to attic, of 3 straight flights to each storey,
with a moulded handrail, turned balusters and open well (the
well filled in later on the ground floor). On the first floor
are 2 hearths facing diagonally forwards; the right hearth has
a cast-iron ducknest grate of c1800, the left hearth is
obscured by furniture and believed to be blocked. The roof
structure is original and partly exposed, of hardwood.

Listing NGR: TQ6497699546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544983

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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