Heron Cottage

BRENTWOOD

TQ6291 BRENTWOOD ROAD, Herongate 723-1/13/177 (South West side) 20/02/76 No.197 Heron Cottage

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House. C18, extended in C19 and early C20. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range facing NE, with an external stack at each gable end. 2 parallel and adjacent wings to rear, early C19, with an external stack to rear of the left wing. C19 single-storey lean-to extension to rear of both, completing a rectangular plan. Late C19/early C20 single-storey wing to rear right, with axial stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics. Ground floor, one C18 sash of 6+6 lights with some crown glass, and one projecting former shop window converted in early C20, with 4 transomed lights. First floor, 2 similar sashes, of which that at left has been altered, and C20 replacement sash in middle. Two C18 2-light windows with rectangular leading, each with one fixed light and one wrought-iron casement, and one C20 metal casement, in flat-roofed dormers. Central C20 door at front of C19/20 lean-to porch with side-lights, one limestone step, and full-width tiled canopy on brackets, connecting with converted shop window. Gambrel roof. The left stack is original, with tumbled courses at the shoulders, rebuilt at the top. To rear of it, early C19 glazed door with moulded and dentilled flat canopy on brackets. The right stack may be original at the base, where it is rendered, but most of it is of late C19 brickwork without tumbled courses. To rear of it, one early C19 sash of 6+6 lights at each floor, and in the lean-to extension one C19 casement on the ground floor and a plain boarded door with small glass pane on the upper level. In the lean-to roof, one C20 skylight and 2 casements in a large C20 dormer. The rear wing is of red brick in Flemish bond, with handmade tiles on the right pitch, machine-made tiles on the left pitch. In the left wall are many inscribed dates and initials, some on reused bricks. INTERIOR: the left front ground-floor room has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and an attached early C19 corner cupboard with 2 profiled shelves and 2 plain doors below. The right ground-floor room has a similar beam with plain stops, and some introduced oak panelling of c1600. Early C19 stair with closed string and stick balusters, and to rear of it, early C19 2-panel pine door with L hinges. To right of stair, early C19 borrowed light of 4 panes with early glass. The rear left ground-floor room has a C20 grate in an early C19 fireplace with dentilled mantel, and C20 mantel above. To left of it, rectangular recess with 2 profiled shelves, moulded architrave and 2 moulded doors below. On the first floor of main range, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and an early C19 cast-iron ducknest grate in each room. The left room has an C18 moulded ceiling cornice. 2-panel pine doors to attic rooms.

Listing NGR: TQ6295291110