60, High Street

BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 HIGH STREET 723-1/12/66 (South side) 21/10/58 No.60

GV II

House now shop. c1400 and late C16. Timber-framed, plastered, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan with rear extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. N front elevation, broad gable to street, ground floor C20 shop with fully glazed window and door. At W side, passageway of South Street through from High Street to rear. First floor, two C19 sash windows, with horns. Second-floor attic window in gable, similar but with central glazing bars to sashes 2x2 panes. Rear, S elevation, gable merges on W side with timber-framed and plastered addition to No.62 (qv). Smaller block butted to gable end, part jettied, ground floor weatherboarded with C19 fixed window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. First floor, C19 sash window with glazing bars, 4x2 panes. To S small single-storey timber-framed block, plastered and weatherboarded with peg-tiled roof. At S end of range C19 brick 2-storey block, slate roof. To W on ground floor, segment headed doorway with plain C20 door. At S end, 2-storey bay windows, C19, of 3 cants, both ground and first-floor windows have a casement window in each cant with glazing bars, 2x2 panes, also upper top hung casement with central glazing bar, 2 panes, pebble dash rendering between windows and simple cornice above each. INTERIOR: rear face of doorway of heavy proportions with deep 2-centred arched head set on W side of South Street passage, surrounding timber framing considerably replaced by brickwork, especially towards frontage. Probably originally jettied to street but evidence now absent. First floor considerably obscured but 3 principal bays, one with cambered tie-beam and arched brace, wall plate and brace chamfered, also collar purlin of a crown post roof. At rear, door or window head with adjacent heavy tension brace. Further to rear added block jettied on W side, inferior later studding, probably late C16. Rail on W side below windows suggests that original purpose was a small gallery. On High Street frontage a cornice of classical profile remains within present room showing that the frontage is now slightly built out to the street. The building was a cross-wing to a hall house that continues into No.62 (qv) and probably onto the site of No.64 (qv). The visible doorway in South Street led from a hall to the the W into the cross-wing. Nos 60, 62 & 64 form a group. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 8: 36).

Listing NGR: TQ5940193729