Toby House

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TQ69NW ROMAN ROAD 723-1/6/470 (North West side) No.320 Toby House

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House. Early C19, extended in C19. Gault and red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Rectangular plan facing SE, with an internal stack at the left side, and external stacks at the right side and at rear left. A later C19 wing to rear centre, partly covering an original window, connects the house to a formerly separate stable range parallel with the axis, forming an H-plan; the stable range has been raised to 2 storeys. C20 single-storey lean-to extension in bay to left, enclosing the rear stack. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 pairs of French windows with marginal lights. First floor, 3 sashes with marginal lights. Central half-glazed door with coloured marginal lights; plaster doorcase comprising fluted pilasters and moulded cornice. A full-width tented canopy of zinc on cast-iron stanchions encloses the front door and French windows; many of the stanchions are broken. Low-pitched roof with wide overhanging eaves and paired brackets at front and both sides. The front elevation and the left elevation (facing the approach from London and Brentwood) are of gault bricks; at the right the gault facade projects slightly, and the remainder is of red brick. In the left elevation is a half-glazed door with marginal lights opening into a C20 conservatory (replacing an earlier conservatory), and one original sash of 8+8 lights on the ground floor, 2 on the first floor, all with segmental brick arches. The right elevation has on the ground floor 2 original round casements, and on the first floor one original sash of 6+6 lights with crown glass and one C20 casement. The right elevation of the rear wing is weatherboarded on the first floor only; it has on the ground floor one C19 casement and on the first floor one original sash of 8+8 lights with crown glass re-sited. The stable range has at the rear one original halved door, and C20 metal casements. INTERIOR: original stair of a straight flight and a quarter turn at the top, with moulded handrail and stick balusters. C20 grate in left ground-floor room. Original reeded fireplaces with paterae are reported in the right ground-floor room and upper rooms.

Listing NGR: TQ6268697433