Luptons And Attached Garden Wall

Luptons and Attached Garden Wall

A house of complex development spanning the 17th to 20th centuries, located on the east side of Wigley Bush Lane in South Weald, Brentwood. The building comprises timber-framed and brick elements, rendered and colour-washed, with a roof of peg tiles and slate.

The original structure was a 17th-century symmetrical two-celled block with a central stack, probably featuring a lobby entrance. This was followed in the early 18th century by an addition of a wing to the south end, when the original stack was reconstructed with contemporary fireplaces and rooms in both the new wing and original block were panelled. In the early 19th century, a long range in brick was added to the north end. The layout comprises the original rectangular house with added units, a short rear wing to the west, and a long side and rear wing to the north, together with two single-storey extensions to the west.

The west front elevation presents two adjacent blocks, north and south, rendered timber-framing with ashlar scoring, two storeys and an attic beneath hipped peg-tiled roofs. A large 18th-century central stack in red brick with burnt headers rises to the front of the roof apex. At ground floor north end stands an early 19th-century front door of wood with a flat-headed Ionic door-case with plain columns, pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. The door has glazed upper lights with intersecting-circle glazing bars and six beaded flush panels. To the south, a 19th-century single-storey front addition in red brick features eaves dentils, a round casement window to the west, and two segment-headed sash windows with glazing bars to the north. Early 20th-century sashes with glazing bars in three-by-four-pane configurations appear on the upper floor, together with two casement windows flush with moulded architrave at first-floor level. The north block is 19th-century brick, colour-washed, two storeys under a hipped slate roof. A 19th-century single-storey slated gabled front extension to the ground floor contains two segment-headed casement windows with two-by-three-pane glazing, and two blind segment-headed window apertures.

The south garden elevation of the south block displays ashlar-lined rendered timber-framing beneath a hipped peg-tile roof with deep projecting eaves continuing from the west front, and an attic dormer. Two stacks are evident: the principal stack to the west and a second to the east of the roof apex. The ground floor has a centrally positioned fully glazed French window with similar side lights, six units wide, all with glazing bars and Gothic-arched heads. An open verandah with swept roof supported on four latticed iron uprights adjoins this. A 19th-century addition to the west features a segment-headed doorway with a 19th-century double door of two lower panels and upper glazing with two-by-three-pane leaves. At first-floor level, two sash windows with three-by-four-pane glazing and side lights of one-by-four panes have Gothic-arched heads; early 19th-century blind boxes are also present. The central attic dormer contains a segment-headed sash with three-by-three-pane glazing. The north block is colour-washed brick, two storeys, with a hipped slate roof and stack on the east end wall. At ground floor, a 19th-century door with beaded flush panels features glazed upper sections with three-by-three-pane glazing bars; three similar 19th-century segment-headed sash windows with beaded frames and three-by-six-pane glazing appear in sequence. The first floor has two comparable sashes with three-by-four-pane glazing and a straight-headed window over the door below, with moulded architrave and two-by-three-pane glazing.

The rear east elevation reveals north and south wings projecting with additional linking sections that mask the original house. The south wing is timber-framed and rendered with deep eaves continuing from the south elevation and a stack rising through the north pitch of the hipped roof. At ground floor, one fully glazed French window with Gothic heads and no side lights features moulded architraves, alongside one sash window with moulded architrave and thick glazing bars in three-by-four-pane configuration. The first floor contains one sash window with Gothic-headed glazing bars in three-by-four panes, and a second sash directly above with thick glazing bars in three-by-four lights. A central segment-headed dormer incorporates a sash window with three-by-three-pane glazing. Two other dormers are visible: one similar segment-headed dormer at the rear of the original front block, and a 20th-century flat-headed dormer with a two-light casement in four-by-three-pane configuration on the north roof pitch of the south wing. The linking section is timber-framed and rendered beneath a slate roof, containing two sash windows positioned vertically, each with glazing bars and three-by-four-pane configuration; the lower, larger window has a Gothic-arched top. The north wing presents a plain, colour-washed brick end wall with a central stack below a hipped slate roof, and is lined with 20th-century garages at ground floor level.

The north elevation exhibits a long colour-washed brick side wall of the north wing beneath a continuous hipped slate roof. Three stacks are apparent: one roughly central (truncated), one on the east end wall, and one to the west end. Irregular sash windows with glazing bars occupy the centre and west end. Ground-floor windows display segment heads: one window of three-by-four panes and four windows of two-by-four panes. An early 19th-century door with six flush beaded panels and a two-light fanlight under a segment head is present, adjacent to a single-storey extension to the west comprising two units with flat and sloping roofs, lit by a single-light casement window. At first-floor level, two sash windows with glazing bars flank the central stack—one of three-by-three panes and one of three-by-four panes.

The interior is much altered, but features remain visible. The two-celled original block contains a large central stack with exposed binding and bridging joists in the north cell. An 18th-century dogleg stair with shaped handrail and dado in the rear unit features arches to the passage and upper corridor. The first floor of the original block retains pine panelling in both rooms. The south wing fireplace, though now enlarged, still displays bold egg-and-dart moulding.

The garden wall, to be included with the house, extends south from the building for thirty-eight metres along Wigley Bush Lane, then turns east for twenty-three metres. It comprises 18th-century brickwork with burnt headers, with a few courses of later brickwork added to the top.

Luptons, Wealdcote and Granary, The Cottage, The Post Office and The Tower Arms form a group of related heritage buildings.