Gardeners Arms Inn

BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 HART STREET 723-1/12/64 (South side) 20/02/76 Gardeners Arms Inn

II

House, now public house. C18 with full height C19 addition to rear. Red brick with chequered burnt headers, clay tile mansard roof. Listed portion has rectangular plan of 2 units. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attics, gable end stacks, W one external. Front, N elevation, 3 bays, central doorway with simple hood on stucco pilasters and shaped brackets. Door C20, upper glazed panel with shaped head and glazing bars, 3x3 panes, each side a C19 sash window, segment headed, glazing bars 4x2 panes. First floor, horned C19 sash windows with glazing bars, outer pair 4x2 panes, central one 3x2 panes. 2 segment headed lead covered dormers, each with a 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. Rear, S elevation, C19 addition in red brick, hipped mansard roof, ground floor obscured by C20 L-shaped addition, not of special interest and not included in this listing. First floor, 3 C19 sash windows with glazing bars 4x4 panes, rear stack between centre and W window. To E, C19 dormer window in steep roof pitch, sash with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. E end elevation essentially blank with clear straight joint between C18 house and C19 addition continued up round C18 mansard gable, red brickwork of C18 house chequered, as N front, C19 walling plain. 2 stacks, one per unit with C20 attic casement window between in C19 build. W end elevation, similar to E with straight joint. Lower front of C18 house rebuilt, external stack prominent. Ground floor has C20 door with adjacent casement window with glazing bars, to rear of stack. Door has upper glazing with glazing bars, 2x3 panes and 3 lower panels. On N side window 3x3 panes, on S side, 3 conjoined windows, each of 2x4 panes. Fire-escape stair rises above to C20 plain doors on both first floor and attic. C19 attic window with glazing bars to S of attic door, 4x4 panes, to N of attic door small C20 stack in red brick. INTERIOR: has no features of special interest exposed.

Listing NGR: TQ5926893658