The Shepherd Public House

KELVEDON HATCH

TQ59NE BLACKMORE ROAD 723-1/5/429 (South side) 20/02/76 The Shepherd Public House (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD BLACKMORE ROAD, Doddinghurst The Shepherd)

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Public house. Late C16, c1700 and late C19. Timber-framed, rendered and weatherboarded, also brick; gabled, peg-tiled roofs. Principal block H-plan with additional block attached to E cross-wing. C20 brick gabled porch attached to front of W cross-wing. H block, 2 storeys, 3 window range, ground floor, centre pair of C20 wooden casements with glazing bars. Cross-wings have horned sashes with glazing bars and 4x4 panes. Windows first floor, centre sash with glazing bars, 4x2 panes. Cross-wings, C20 wooden casements, glazing bars, 4x2 panes. C20 framed and panelled doors with glazed lights, 2x6 panes in E cross-wing. Timber-framed block to E said to be a brewhouse, hipped roof, weatherboarded, ground floor C19 casement window restored, 4x2 lights (originally louvred vents) first floor C20 casement with diamond leaded lights. Chimney-stacks in red brick C18 or C19, principal one to central block and one end stack on each cross-wing. 2 minor stacks to side and rear of 'brewhouse'. INTERIOR: earliest part of house late C16 E cross-wing, internal curved tension bracing and stout studding of transverse partition with face halved and bladed scarf on wall plate, floor joists, deep section with diminished haunches and window aperture on ground floor. Central block probably same date with first-floor central tie-beam and joints for small arched braces, floor joists with pendant soffits, perhaps remewed when present stack built through cross passage area, c1700?. Original stack possibly in lateral position on back wall of hall in line with binding joist (now site of bar). W cross-wing c1700, primary bracing, reworked, cogged floor joists. First floor transverse partition carpenters' marks in Roman numerals, from 3-7. Rear of E block early C18 staircase with turned balusters and shaped handrail. Rear elevation straightened in C19 yellow brick, 3 gables extended to cover rear of brewhouse. Irregular C19 and C20 windows. W gable ground floor, sash with glazing bears 3x4 panes side lights. First-floor windows slightly arched heads 2 sashes (3x4) and one 2x4 sash. 2 doors boarded each with a glazed panel.

Listing NGR: TQ5752298479