Warley Elms

BRENTWOOD

TQ5890 GREAT WARLEY STREET, Great Warley 723-1/17/147 (West side) 20/02/76 Warley Elms

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House. c1800, C20. Yellow brick with stuccoed front, hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan with C20 ground-floor billiard room in similar style added to rear of W end elevation. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Front, S elevation, 3 window range with slight break forward of central bay, stucco rendered with horizontal ashlar lining and clasping corner pilasters. Central simple projecting Tuscan door porch with plain columns and cornice. the door original with 2 leaves, each leaf has 4 panels with moulded surrounds, upper ones glazed. Flanking shallow, stuccoed, semicircular arched recesses with windows, simple string course link to arches and door porch. The windows are original sashes with thin glazing bars and 3x4 panes and have wooden liners to the reveals. To W front of C20 addition, set back, ashlar lined stucco with parapet, 2 semicircular headed fully glazed French windows with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Rear, N elevation, 3 bays as front but with parapet between clasping pilasters. Pebble dash rendered and colourwashed, all windows are sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Ground floor window heads linked by continuous plain string course. Stack projects slightly between E and central bays. To W, C20 ground floor extension, elevation similar to front. E end elevation, 2 window range with ground floor semicircular arched stuccoed recesses with windows, as front, clasping corner pilasters and parapet, all windows, as front, sashes, 3x4 panes, on ground floor linked by continuing string course. Walling principally yellow brick, first-floor windows have finely set voussoirs. Area round S ground floor window now pebble dash rendered. W elevation, pebble dash, clasping pilasters and parapet, ground floor, to S, round headed recess with window and string course as on E, to N, C20 single storeyed extension with 3 symmetrical windows similar to those on front elevation but as casement windows with lower panes fixed. First floor has 2 upper windows, as front, one central and one to S over one below. Central stack rises behind parapet. INTERIOR: essentially plain but flying stair in curved well, top lit, has elegant mahogany handrail and decorative iron balusters. Some rooms and top of stair on first floor have ornamental plaster cornices. 3 original fireplaces with reeded jambs and roundels. The presence of a parapet on all elevations, except the S implies its original continuation round the whole building. The horizontal ashlar lining (without verticals) appears fresh and C20 and is exactly similar on the C20 extension. The front elevation was most probably originally stuccoed and lined and has been completely re-done in the C20. The parapet was probably removed at the same time.

Listing NGR: TQ5879990098