Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE WEALD ROAD, South Weald
723-1/8/296 (South side)
20/02/76 Rochetts Farmhouse

GV II

House. C16, C17, C18, C20. Timber-framing and brick, peg-tiled
roof. Double cranked plan of principal range with rear
cross-wing projection at W end and forward projection with
further addition at E.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, central C19 stack. Front N elevation,
brick, colourwashed, 3 window range, ground floor, 2 outer
windows, segment heads, with C20 3-light casements with
glazing bars, each 3x3 panes, central door in doorcase with
flush panelled, bead decorated reveals, door similar with 6
panels. Slmple lean-to tiled porch on brackets. 2 brick
buttresses on the ground floor as a result of war damage.
First floor, central 2-light casement with glazing bars, 2x4
panes. To W similar casement with segment head and C19 shaped
barge boards over cross-wing gable above. To E similar window
with flat head under facade gable, shaped barge boards as
cross-wing. E projecting wing, brick, peg-tiled hipped roof,
single C20 2-light casement window with segment head, glazing
bars, 2x4 panes. Rear S elevation, principal block, brick
colourwashed, 3 window range ground floor to W in angle with
cross-wing doorway with segment head door, lower boarded
panel, upper glazing with glazing bars, 3x3 panes, to E, 2
windows, both with segment heads and 3-light casement with
glazing bars, 3x4 panes. First floor, 3 similar windows, like
those below, 3x2 panes with flat heads. Roof hipped at E end
with C18 stack, rebuilt in C20, showing on end wall. 2
lean-tos with hipped roofs (flat tiles) and C20 door with
lower boarded panel and 2 upper glazed panels. To W projecting
brick cross-wing with upper and lower 3-light casement window
with glazing bars - upper 3x2 panes, lower with segment head,
3x3 panes. Stack showing on W end wall, with C19 and C20
brickwork. W end elevation, plain cross-wing with stack. To E,
C19 brick wing, rebuilt in C20 as a result of war damage,
projects to N. Ground floor door under simple lean-to hood. 2
flush lower panels, upper glazing with glazing bars, 3x3
panes, plain fixed window alongside. First floor, 3-light
casement window with glazing bars, 3x3 panes and above, C19
facade gable as on front elevation with shaped barge boards,
roof hipped at N end. E elevation, E cross-wing with stack,
two C20 ground-floor additions with hipped roofs at stack
base. To N, C20 garage with peg-tiled lean-to roof to C19
block.
INTERIOR: considerably rebuilt but timber-framed units
evident. W cross-wing of 2 bays with jowled posts and original
central partition seen on first floor with step-stopped
chamfers and tension bracing, roof of wind braced side purlin
form. Central block - ground floor passage and opposing doors
imply the site of the cross-passage behind present front door.
Upper floor raised to 2 storeys in timber phase, probably C17.
Central stack probably provided at same time (now much
altered). E cross-wing of 2 bays, wall plates with edge-halved
and bridled scarf joints, simple undecorated central
crown-post with thin 2-way bracing. Although of differing
construction, the E and W cross-wings could be close in date -
mid-C16, the east being the earlier. There was, no doubt, a
ground-floor central hall, only the plan remains though, in
the later structure. Rochetts and the barn (qv) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5590494342

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584814

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