21, Cricketers Lane

BRENTWOOD

TQ6291 CRICKETERS LANE, Herongate 723-1/13/182 (North East side) 20/02/76 No.21 (Formerly Listed as: CRICKETERS LANE, Herongate Nos.21 AND 23)

GV II

Includes: No.19 (part) CRICKETERS LANE Herongate. Butcher's shop, slaughterhouse and associated house. C18. Converted to house c1980. Timber-framed, roughcast rendered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 3 bays facing SW, with stack at right end; 3 parallel and adjacent rear wings, the whole forming a rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The ground floor of the right part is now combined with part of No.19, to right; the remainder forms one house, No.21 (including what was No.23). At front left, early C19 butcher's shop window comprising 2 adjacent top-hung casements each of 8 lights, with handmade glass, and on the outside a long top-hung panelled shutter above, and a similar bottom-hung shutter below, plain halved door (formerly of No.23) blocked internally, and a moulded 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed (No.21), all under a tiled canopy with moulded eaves, supported on C20 posts. To right (part of No.19), one early C19 sash of 8+8 lights. First floor, 2 similar sashes. All these sashes have C20 external shutters with club-shaped perforations and imitation hinges. Roof of main range hipped at left. Front elevation roughcast, remainder weatherboarded. Narrow C20 casements in left elevation, inserted between original studs. INTERIOR: the left ground-floor room, formerly the shop, has a chamfered transverse beam with convex stops and exposed plain joists of vertical section; C19 hand-driven bone grinder attached to front wall. The room to rear of it has many wrought-iron meat-hooks attached to the joists. The rear left wing was built originally as one storey, raised to 2 storeys in C19, with primary straight bracing in both phases. Straight stair inside main door, with at the top an early C19 semi-elliptical arch with unusual carved stops. In the middle rear wing, formerly the slaughterhouse, a heavy iron ring is attached to a strong post about 0.25m above ground, formerly for securing beasts to be stunned. The shop window is in exceptionally unaltered condition, a rare feature meriting special care.

Listing NGR: TQ6293991231