41, Cricketers Lane

BRENTWOOD

TQ6291 CRICKETERS LANE, Herongate 723-1/13/186 (North East side) 20/02/76 No.41

II

House. Early C18, extended in mid-C19 and C20. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slate. Main range facing SW, with original external stack at left end and C19 smaller external stack at right end. Mid-C19 parallel range of the same length to rear, with axial internal stack at left end. C19 long single-storey lean-to extension to left of both ranges, enclosing the stack of the front range. C19 long single-storey lean-to extension to right of front range, enclosing the stack. Small single-storey wing to rear centre, and C20 conservatory beyond. 2 storeys. Ground floor, one splayed bay of C20 sashes at front of C19 square bay, and one C20 sash of 8+8 lights. First floor, one early C19 sash of 8+8 lights at left, with handmade glass, and C20 equivalent at right. Central C20 half-glazed door with flat canopy on profiled brackets. Replica Sun firemark attached to top left of front elevation. Roof of front range hipped, tiled; roof of rear range gabled, clad with unusual grey slates. The left lean-to has one C20 sash; the right lean-to had double vehicle doors; both have slate roofs. The rear elevation of the parallel range has on the ground floor one C20 casement and 2 mid-C19 sashes with long vertical panes; the first floor has 3 similar sashes. The left lean-to has at the rear one early/mid-C19 sash of 8+8 lights. INTERIOR: the right front ground-floor room has a chamfered hardwood axial beam and exposed plain joists of vertical section. The left front ground-floor room has two C19 scrolled corbels supporting the lintel of the first inserted bay, and an introduced early C19 cast-iron reeded fireplace and ducknest grate, in an original hearth. The left lean-to has a C19 plain white marble fireplace and cast-iron grate. The left front first-floor room has an attached C19 corner cupboard with 3 profiled shelves, straight head and 4 original doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: the original construction is dated to 1736 by an entry in the court rolls recording the enclosure of 39 rods of Ingrave Common, and by a coin of the same date. From 1839 to c1906 this building was a beerhouse, `The Cricketers', which gave its name to the lane; the left extension was the ballroom.

Listing NGR: TQ6285691332