Sabina

NAVESTOCK

TQ59NW SABINES ROAD 723-1/4/510 (North side) 20/02/76 Sabina (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD SABINES ROAD, Navestock Sabina)

II

House. C15/16. Timber-framed, weatherboarded and rendered with peg-tiled roof. 3-celled, 4-bayed small medieval house with 2-bayed hall with cross entry, flanked by 2-storeyed bays (service and solar). External arched and tension bracing. Solar bay jettied with evidence of 2-light mullioned window under jetty. Jetty joists flat laid, evidence of stair trap. Hall originally open to roof (heavy sooting) with large window to rear with central king mullion and transom and 8 lights. Front window probably similar from evidence of peg spacing. Hall was divided by decorative tie-beam truss, posts having deep internal fillet continued onto deep arch braces (peg evidence). Cambered tie-beam supports a crown post of square section with deeply projecting fillets on each face. Cross entry doorways with medieval arched doorheads and joints indicate an original spere or screen separating passage from hall. Pair of service doorways remain with square, chamfered heads. Original service bay now lost, only mortices for floor joists (centre tenoned) remain. This bay replaced in the C17 with a bay with queen post roof and Roman numerals on the members. In late C17 or C18 hall divided horizontally and chimney-stack inserted at the central truss and dormer windows to upper storey. C20 extension to rear of service bay. C20, paned, casement windows. Example of small medieval hall house, jettied chamber and evidence of spere/screen important. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 9: 193).

Listing NGR: TQ5500196854