Three Wantz

DODDINGHURST

TQ59NE CHURCH LANE 723-1/5/317 (East side) 20/02/76 Three Wantz (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD WARREN LANE, Doddinghurst Three Wantz)

II

House. Late C16, C17 and C20. Timber-framing but front wall is brick, roughcast, peg-tiled roof. 3 bays, lobby entrance plan with stack and front door off centre to S. One and a half storeys. 3 window range and one gabled dormer window all with C20 casements but of approximately C18/C19 proportions. Door, C20 fielded panels, one panel glazed, C20 gabled porch in timber and brick with moulded composition pilasters. Stack C20 rebuild with some elaboration in the original plain pair of diagonal shafts. Minor stack to S behind roof apex. C20 single storeyed extension of S with door similar to front door, also C20 window with top opening light. INTERIOR: has C16 and C17 phases of building but the sequence is not easy to interpret. 2 NE bays earliest with stout studding and internal rising braces, SW bay an addition, with primary bracing. Within the early bays the principal stack is inserted and has a depressed 4-centred arched fireplace in the attic and the ground-floor fireplace is rebuilt in the original form with a timber lintel. Principal central ground floor room has flat sectioned joists with diminished haunched soffit tenons. End room to N has old outer frame but ceiling appears to be renewed (deep sectioned joists with diminished haunched soffit tenons). Added bay to S end of house has diminished haunched soffit tenons and joists of deepish section, originally partitioned axially (shown by redundant joints in the bridging joist and brick footings for timber sill found by owner together with circular footing in rear half). Minor stack in this bay probably contemporary. Carpenters' marks of the scratched form on the originally exterior end wall (now at back of principal stack). Also carpenters' marks with distinguishing scratched circles on the central cross walling between the 2 earlier bays. This wall has a number of large peg holes of about 31mm diameter which line up in rows and pairs suggesting the setting up of a weavers' warping frame. C20 restoration includes the complete renewal of the front wall in the 1930's. The rear of the house is similar to the fromt, rough cast with two C20 casement windows and a boarded door. Roof repaired at NE end with C20 machine-made flat tiles. C20 extension on SW end projects to create an L plan. C20 casement window with top light. The C16 and C17 timber-framing of the house appears to demonstrate phases of reconstruction and addition in a close sequence of building activity. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 11: 57).

Listing NGR: TQ5819198296