120, High Street

BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 HIGH STREET 723-1/12/74 (South side) 21/10/58 No.120

GV II

House, now house and offices. Early C18, early C19 and early C20. Red brick, slate hipped roofs. Rectangular plan with C19 rectangular addition on W side, principal stacks on E and W flank walls. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic to rear. N, front elevation, 2 bay block and one bay extension. Ground floor, E-W, sash window, flush voussoirs with brick key-stone, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. C18 doorway raised, approached by steps with cast-iron railings. Segmental dentilled pediment and frieze with moulded string-course raised in the centre, fluted pilasters. Door has 8 fielded panels. Narrow 3-light rectangular fan-light. Early C20 shop front, curved plate glass windows, full width of additional C19 unit, wooden frame, coloured leaded glass frieze, deep architrave and cornice. First floor, 3 similar windows with flush frames and glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Rear, S elevation, 2 units, C18, 2 storey and attic, peg-tiled, gabled block of 2 bays to E, C19 2 storey, single bay C19 block to W with hipped, peg-tiled roof, all pebble dash rendered. Ground floor, E-W, French window with doors having each 2 upper glazed panes and 2 lower panels. Segment headed doorway, C20 door with single glazed panel. Segment headed sash window with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. First floor, E-W, C19 sash windows, one plain, one with glazing bars, 2x4 panes, one plain under segment head. E end elevation, blank rendered wall and remains of old wall spurs where adjoining property to E has been demolished, internal stack in rear half, peg tile and slate junction in line with apex of front hip. W end elevation, plain C20 door with simple fanlight and upper glazing, adjacent C20 double folding doors with full length glazing, above, on first floor simple narrow C19 sash window, segment head, internal stack. Garage canopy over rear area. INTERIOR: much rebuilt and C18 corridor and room divisions not now evident. Roof of C18 unit has butt-side-purlins. The upper part of the rear of the C18 block exhibits the irregularities and cracking in the rendering typical of timber-framing. The narrow span at right angles to the street is typical of early town buildings. The house probable has an earlier, C17 timber-framed core that was re-fronted in brick in the C18. Nos 108-114 even (qv) and No.120 make a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5916893646