112, High Street

BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 HIGH STREET 723-1/12/72 (South side) 29/05/75 No.112

GV II

House now office. Early C16. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan with gable to street. 2 storey. N front elevation, ground floor C19 shop front with canted window with glazing bars, 1x4,5x4,1x4 panes, shop door, upper glazing with glazing bars, 2x4 panes and single lower panel. First floor, C20 2-light casement window, top opening. C19 plaster rendering is lined out as ashlar work. Stack emerging from roof pitch seen behind facade on E side. Rear, S elevation obscured except for weatherboarded gable end. E and W sides obscured. INTERIOR construction considerably covered but outer framing exposed on first floor with central tie-beam showing 2 bay system. One arched brace from storey post visible. Step stopped chamfer on tie-beam. Above, crown post roof, central 2-way braced post has one brace surviving, other removed for insertion of C18/19 stack. No decoration but stout construction and elegant sweep to braces of the central and gable crown post to collar purlin. (S gable brace missing, only mortice remains). This cross-wing roof is similar to the one at No.110 (qv) and together they constitute the original end units of an H-plan hall house. The elegance of the roof timbers and the internal ground floor plan of No.110 implies that No.112 was the `high' end and the roof was visible over the principal chamber of the early C16 house. Nos 108-114 even (qv) and No.120 (qv) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5920093664