Nunns

This is an early 18th-century house with a 19th-century extension, located on Coxtie Green Road in Brentwood. The house is built of red brick in a Flemish bond, with a considerable number of burnt headers, and also features timber framing and weatherboarding. It has a peg-tiled roof.

The main block is rectangular, with a symmetrical three-bay front elevation to the south. The ground floor has two sash windows and a central door. The windows have simple segment heads and contain glazing bars in a 4x4 pane arrangement. The doorway is topped by a pediment supported by console brackets, and has a painted frieze bearing the initials “T R” and the date 1744. The door itself has five panels, with the lower four having projecting mouldings. The first floor also has three sash windows with glazing bars, again in a 4x4 pane pattern. Two flat-headed dormers have replaced older windows in the attic. Two brick stacks are located in the end gables.

A timber-framed and weatherboarded extension to the east has a pantiled roof, hipped at the east end. It features two 20th-century garage doors on the ground floor and a single fixed window on the first floor. The eastern elevation of this extension is also weatherboarded, with a single ground-floor window and a two-light window above.

The rear north elevation is brick with burnt headers in an English bond, and is rendered. A projecting central addition is present, incorporating some yellow brick on the first floor and weatherboarding. It has a hipped roof covered in glazed pantiles, and a central 19th-century stack at the north end. Two 20th-century lean-tos are situated in the eastern angle between the house and the 19th-century projection, and at the west side of the 18th-century projection.

Straight joints in the gable ends between the stacks and the rest of the gable wall are visible, along with straight pitched lines behind what appears to be a later, early 19th-century mansard roof, indicating a previous alteration from a simple pitched roof. The brickwork bonding changes from Flemish to English across both gable end walls from front to back.

Inside, a staircase rises from front to back, featuring an early 18th-century shaped handrail. Internal shutters remain in the front windows, and one upstairs fireplace has an Art Nouveau surround and grate hood. The house forms a group with Haylands and Little Oakhurst.