51, Shenfield Road

This is a house located at 51 Shenfield Road in Brentwood, dating from the early 19th century and extended in the 20th century. It has a timber-framed structure that is plastered and roofed with slate. The house has a rectangular plan facing southeast, featuring one stack on the right side and two on the left. There is an early to mid-19th century two-storey lean-to on the right and a single-storey lean-to at the rear of it. At the back, there is a two-storey wing that connects to a single-storey range angled to the right, with a 20th-century conservatory beyond. Additionally, there is a 20th-century two-storey wing to the rear right and a 20th-century external stack on the rear left.

The house is two storeys high and has two original sash windows with six over six lights and moulded architraves on the ground floor, and three on the first floor, all symmetrically arranged. The central entrance features a 20th-century glazed door with a fanlight that has radial tracery, flanked by plaster pilasters and topped with concentric stepped semicircular arches, accessed by one stone step. There is a plaster band at the first-floor level and corner pilasters. The roof is hipped.

On the right lean-to, there is one similar sash window on each floor in the front elevation, and a blocked doorway in the right elevation that has semicircular pilasters, capitals, a frieze with a Greek key design, and a dentilled and moulded cornice, although the bases of the pilasters are missing. The left stacks are truncated at eaves level, and a 20th-century casement window has been inserted between them on the ground floor. At the rear left, there is one mid-19th century sash window with marginal lights on the ground floor. In the left elevation of the rear wing, there is one original sash window with eight over four lights, with the upper sash supported by two hinged arms when open. The angled wing beyond is partly weatherboarded and partly built of red brick in Flemish bond, also roofed with slate, and is part of a former stable range.

Inside, the entrance hall features a semi-elliptical arch with panelled pilasters. In the ground-floor room to the right, there is a doorway with a semi-elliptical arch leading to the former entrance lobby.