Tilehurst

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NE HALL LANE 723-1/7/458 (East side) Tilehurst

II

House. 1884. By George Sherrin. For Sir Sebastian Petre. Minor alterations in 1906. Red brick in English bond with limestone dressings, some exposed false framing, and some tile-hanging, roofed with machine-made red clay tiles. Complex plan facing approximately W, with 2 internal and 3 external stacks. 2 storeys with attics and cellars. All windows are casements, many with rectangular leading; all on the ground floor, and some on the first floor, have chamfered stone surrounds and moulded stone mullions, some also with moulded transoms. 3 first-floor windows are oriels supported on profiled brackets with exposed false framing in the gables; 2 of them have brick nogging below the windows in oblique square pattern. 2 gabled dormers with exposed false framing. This framing is in various regional styles - close studding, square panels and decorative patterns. Double half-glazed doors in moulded stone surround. Near the S end is a square tower with a belvedere in the second storey, false framing below the windows on 3 sides, an ogival cupola and weathervane. The left return has a 2-storey splayed bay and a moulded stone parapet gable. The E (garden) elevation has a similar 2-storey bay but with a close-studded gable, 2 stone mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, and a close-studded gable dormer. Near the S end is a timber gallery on the first floor, and twin gables with exposed false framing in decorative style. INTERIOR: original main stair and doors on the ground floor, upper floors altered. The house was originally named Tylhus. (Essex Countryside: Langford K: A Neglected Essex Architect: 1984-: 22-3).

Listing NGR: TQ6518098243