Drury'S Farmhouse

MOUNTNESSING

TQ69NW ROMAN ROAD 723-1/6/231 (South East side) 20/02/76 No.301 Drury's Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD ROMAN ROAD, Mountnessing (South East side) No.301 Drury farmhouse)

GV II

House. C16 or earlier, altered in C18, extended in C18 and C19. Timber-framed, faced with red brick in Flemish bond, partly plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay main range facing NW with axial stack at right end. 2-bay cross-wing to right, projecting slightly forwards. Cross-wing to left with similar forward projection, projecting further to the rear, with stack at left side. C18/early C19 single-storey extension to rear of left cross-wing, with axial stack, and short C19 extension beyond. C20 lean-to conservatory to right of left cross-wing and part of first extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 late C19 sashes of 3+3 lights. First floor, 3 similar sashes. Central C19 double half-glazed doors, and tiled lean-to canopy spanning the space between the projecting cross-wings. Both cross-wing roofs are hipped at the front. 2 grouped diagonal shafts emerge directly from the roof of the main range. The rear elevation has on the ground floor one similar sash and one C19 casement, and on the first floor one similar casement and one smaller casement. The rear part of the rear extension (now a farm shop) is of red brick, and encloses C18/early C19 patterned plaster on the formerly external wall of the earlier extension. Internal inspection refused July 1989. The forward projection of the cross-wings implies that originally they were jettied to the front, now underbuilt, and the hips at the front are C18 alterations to roofs whose structure is otherwise likely to be original and undisturbed. The roof of the main range has been raised to 2 full storeys in the C17 or C18, enclosing the platform at the top of the earlier stack, and part of the early C17 grouped diagonal shafts, so that little or no original roof structure remains in situ. This is typical of a late medieval yeoman farmhouse which formerly comprised a hall range and 2 jettied cross-wings, possibly of different dates, with a late C16 inserted stack at the right end of the hall range, roof raised in the C17 or C18, and cross-wing roofs altered to hips in the C18. Other external features are C19. Any future alterations should be preceded by a detailed internal inspection and analysis of the timber structure. RCHM 8 records 3 grouped diagonal shafts.

Listing NGR: TQ6284597491