Toby House is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. House.
Toby House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-jade-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Toby House, 320, Roman Road, Mountnessing
- OS grid reference
- TQ 626 974
- Coordinates
- 51.65215, 0.3503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the early 19th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. It is built of gault and red brick in a Flemish bond, with a slate roof. The rectangular main block faces southeast, featuring an internal brick stack on the left and external stacks on the right and at the rear left. A later 19th-century wing, located in the centre of the rear, connects the house to a formerly separate stable range that runs parallel to the main axis, creating an H-plan; the original stable range has been raised to two storeys. A 20th-century single-story lean-to extension has been added to the left, enclosing the rear stack.
The front of the house has two pairs of French windows with small panes of glass above them, and on the first floor, three sash windows with similar details. A central front door is half-glazed with decorative glass around the edges, framed by fluted pilasters and a moulded cornice. A tented zinc canopy, supported by cast-iron stanchions (many of which are broken), covers the front door and French windows. The roof has a low pitch with wide overhanging eaves and decorative brackets on the front and sides. The front and left elevations are of gault brick, while the right side projects slightly and is faced with red brick. The left elevation also features a half-glazed door leading to a 20th-century conservatory (replacing an earlier one), and one original sash window with eight panes on the ground floor, and two on the first floor, all with segmental brick arches. The right elevation has two original round-headed windows on the ground floor and one original sash window with six panes and crown glass on the first floor, alongside a 20th-century casement window. The right elevation of the rear wing has weatherboard cladding on the first floor; it includes one 19th-century casement window on the ground floor and one original sash window with eight panes and crown glass. The rear of the stable range has one original halved door and 20th-century metal casement windows.
Inside, the original staircase has a straight section and a quarter turn at the top, featuring a moulded handrail and stick balusters. A 20th-century grate is in the left ground-floor room. Original fireplaces with reeded detailing and decorative paterae are reported to be in the right ground-floor room and upper rooms.
Local climate
Toby House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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