New House

TL 7614 TERLING FLACK'S GREEN (east side)

10/130 New House

• II

House. C.1600, altered in early C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SE, with rear wing of one bay at left end, and internal stack at the junction. Extended to right by one bay in C18, with internal stack at the junction. C20 rear wing at right end. Single-storey extension between rear wings. 2 storeys. 5-window range of late C18 sashes, with some crown glass. Half-glazed door at front of C20 flat-roofed central porch. Roof fully hipped. Recessed panel in front of stack. The interior has chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops (other beams hacked back to increase height) with plain joists of horizontal section. Originally of one storey with attics (and probably of lobby-entrance plan), walls raised approx. one metre in C18. On ground floor, carved Jacobean chimney-piece, reputedly removed from the mansion south-west of All Saints Church which was demolished to build the present Terling Place. On first floor, early C18 pine chimney-piece. Simon Collins Farm, alias Newhouse Farm, of 70 acres, was bought by John Strutt in 1720, and the house probably reached its present form then. An abstract of title from 1673 is in Essex Record Office (D/Ra T.163).

Listing NGR: TL7654514706