Ingrave Cottage

BRENTWOOD

TQ6291 CRICKETERS LANE, Herongate 723-1/13/183 (North East side) 20/02/76 No.25 Ingrave Cottage

GV II

Part of house, now a house. Late C17, altered in early C19 and C20. Timber-framed, with early C19 cladding of red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2 bays facing SE, with axial stack at left end and external stack at right end, being part of a house originally extending further to the left, the remainder now No.27 (qv), late C17. C18/19 single-storey lean-to extension to rear, now mainly absorbed into rear extension of c1983. 2 storeys and attic. Ground floor, two C20 bows, possibly replacing earlier shop windows. First floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 8+8 lights, of which one lower sash is a C20 replacement. One casement in hipped dormer. Central C20 half-glazed door with C20 gabled canopy on brackets. The brick cladding projects forwards from the remainder of the original house, which is plastered to the timber frame. INTERIOR: hardwood frame with unjowled posts and primary straight bracing; all exposed timber has been sand-blasted. Each ground-floor room has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, in the right room notched for an inserted partition, subsequently removed. Plain joists of vertical section jointed to the beams with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. Partition between these rooms removed, some studs inserted. Large wood-burning hearth to left with seat recess in front jamb, 0.33m wide, rear jamb 0.23m wide, brickwork repointed. Hearth to right blocked and plastered over. C20 winding stair. On the first floor are 2 early/mid-C19 cast-iron grates. 3 original 3-plank internal doors, one to rear left of the ground floor, 2 on the first floor, of which one to a closet in front of the main stack retains original H-hinges; three C20 doors in similar style on the first floor. Clasped purlin roof, with some reused smoke-blackened rafters from the roof of a medieval hall house.

Listing NGR: TQ6292791242