Nag'S Head Inn

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE BROOK STREET, South Weald 723-1/8/284 (South side) 20/02/76 Nag's Head Inn

II

Public house. C17, early C18, C19 and 1961. Red brick, machine-made tile roof. Rectangular plan with C20 additions to rear. 1961 extension to W, lower in height, in matching style, not of special interest and not to be included in this listing. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic with gable end chimneys. N front elevation, 5-bay range, centre bay with door but no window above. Ground floor has a C19 3-light sash window with glazing bars, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes, with a segment head each side of central front door. Door, C20 has upper glazing with glazing bars, 2x3 panes and 2 lower panels. Simple C20 gabled porch with decorative gable bracing integrated with a full length C20 lean-to canopy all bracketed to the front wall roofed with C20 flat tiles. First floor, 4 sash windows, closely spaced as 2 pairs, flush frames, glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Roof has a moulded eaves board and 2 hip roofed dormers with 2-light casements with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. Gable ends have brick parapets and brick brick kneelers. Rear, S elevation, because it is into rising ground and covered with additions, no wall of the original house is to be seen. To E end, small mansard roof extension projects, having a weatherboarded W gable end, with a single light casement window. W end elevation obscured by C20 addition. E end elevation rendered and colourwashed with exterior gable end stack and single window on ground and first floor in extension. Ground floor sash with glazing bars, segment headed, 4x4 panes, first floor, C20 2-light casement. INTERIOR: has C17 timber-framing exposed on ground and first floor of original back wall, primary braced with carpenters' marks. A winding stair with C19 woodwork rises at the rear, in centre, apparently curving tightly around a stack now gone. C19 boarded partitioning for upper rooms. Much re-organisation of rooms but 3 cells apparent. Interior evidence, grouping of first-floor windows and central rise in roof ridge suggest the origin was a C17 lobby entrance house with large central stack and a room each side. This form probably remained into the C18, when the brick front was added, and into the the C19 when the stair was rebuilt. The removal of the central stack was probably contemporary with the C19 fireplaces that remain in the gable end positions.

Listing NGR: TQ5739792663