Old Bank House

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING TQ6599 HIGH STREET, Ingatestone 723-1/14/382 (North West side) 27/04/83 Nos.56 AND 58 Old Bank House (56) (Formerly Listed as BRENTWOOD HIGH STREET, Ingatestone (North West side) (Nos.56 AND 58)

GV II House, now offices and a shop. C17and C18, altered in C19. Timber-framed, plastered, roughcast and weatherboarded, "roofed with machine-made and handmade red brick tiles. Main range facing SE with original stack to rear right, and C18 wing beyond; C19 external stack to left of main range. Formerly detached building to rear of middle of remaining part of main range, and an old stack between it and main range, now connected to form a left rear wing; lean-to extension to left of it; and the space between these rear wings has been infilled, roofed as a short range parallel to the main roof. The whole forms an almost rectangular plan. 2 storeys. No.56, at right, has on the ground floor a wide sash of 2 lights with a segmental head, and a 4-panel door and segmental arch; the jambs and arches of both are rusticated in plaster. First floor, 2 late C18/early C19 sashes of 6+6 lights. Moulded plaster band at first-floor level, continuing round right return. Rusticated plaster quoin, with more rusticated plaster on right return, below the band. No.58, at left, has on the ground floor a C20 sash of 4 lights and a C20 shop window with glazed door, and on the first floor 3 early C20 transomed and mullioned casements. Rusticated plaster quoin at left, to first-floor level only. The front elevation is roughcast rendered and painted, and the front pitch of the roof is clad with machine-made tiles. The rear right wing (of No.56) has on the first floor one late C18/early C19 sash of 6+6 lights; other rear windows are C19 and C20. The rear roofs of No. 56 are clad with handmade tiles. The left elevation of No.58 is partly weatherboarded. INTERIOR: mainly plastered, with some exposed framing in the cross-walls of the main range. No.56 has a chamfered and stopped beam, the joists plastered. No.58 has a moulded beam, probably reused. The formerly detached ancillary building has close studding, end braces on first floor of NW wall, a chamfered beam with plain joists, and a cambered tie-beam.

Listing NGR: TQ6512999694