Apple Tree Cottage

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE WARLEY ROAD, Great Warley 723-1/8/153 (West side) 20/02/76 Apple Tree Cottage

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House. C17 and C18. Timber-framed and plastered, peg tile roof. One storey and attic, C17 stack of 2 diagonal shafts at S end, but rebuilt, rectangular plan with continuous rear C18 out-shut and central C20 extension. Front, E elevation, 2 window range of ground floor and dormer windows with central door between. Wall decorated with old zigzig pargeting. Ground floor windows C18 sashes with thin glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Doorway originally C18 has flat deep moulded hood on shaped console brackets, door has upper glazing with glazing bars, 4x3 panes and single fielded panel below. Dormer windows peg tiled, each has 2-light early casement window with diamond leaded panes. Rear, W elevation, pantiled out-shut rises almost to eaves level of main block, out-shut walls timber-framed and plastered. C20 extension of brick with flat roof, plastic sheeted, central C20 plain back door. Rear additions have C20 casement windows, one 3-light, one 2-light, 2 single lights. A minor C19 stack rises through the principal roof pitch at the N end. N end elevation, plain, one 2-light C20 casement window in out-shut S end elevation, plain, zigzag pargeting as on front. INTERIOR: mainly C20, ceiling joists of thin, deep section, commensurate with the house being of C17 origin. (RCHM: SE Essex : Monument 8: 62).

Listing NGR: TQ5855491258