Mitre House Brentwood School

BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 SHENFIELD ROAD 723-1/12/107 (South East side) 21/10/58 Mitre House, Brentwood School (Formerly Listed as: SHENFIELD ROAD, Shenfield (South side) Mitre House, Brentwood School)

GV II

Formerly known as: Mitre House, Brentwood School ROMAN ROAD. House, now 2 flats. C15, altered in C17 and C19. Timber-framed, plastered with exposed false framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay cross-wing to left, with C17 external stack to left, and wing to rear, 1883. 5-bay cross-wing range to right, extending to rear, with (originally) external stack to right, now enclosed by later extension. C17 stair-tower in rear angle between hall range and right wing. C17 single-storey extension to rear of right wing, with axial stack at the junction. 2 storeys and cellar. Ground floor, 2 tripartite sashes of 2+2, 6+6, and 2+2 lights, and one of 4+5, 6+6 and 4+4 lights. First floor, 4 early C19 sashes of 6+6 lights. C18/early C19 door with 15 handmade bulls-eye lights, moulded flat canopy on brackets. To right of door, large wrought-iron bootscraper comprising a stand of inverted U-shape and a plate with pointed ends. The roof of the main range has been raised about one metre and rebuilt as a double range, of which the front (and wider span) range extends over the cross-wings, abutting on the left stack and enclosing the right stack; the cross-wing roofs rise above it as small hips. All stacks rendered; the hall stack has grouped diagonal shafts, partly enclosed by the raised roof. INTERIOR: the hall range has on the ground floor a wide wood-burning hearth, blocked and plastered over, and to rear of it an early C19 semi-elliptical wooden arch. C16 inserted floor has a chamfered axial beam, joists plastered to the soffits. The roof is of late C17 construction without a ridge. The left cross-wing has a chamfered axial beam, joists plastered to the soffits. The left cross-wing has a chamfered binding beam, joists plastered to the soffits, close studding with Suffolk' bracing where exposed, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing, altered at front and back to hips in the C18. The upper room has a late C17 bolection-moulded fireplace, blocked, and C18 moulded ceiling cornices. The right cross-wing has in the front ground-floor room some late C16 oak panelling, painted, a blocked hearth, and an original rear doorway with hollow-moulded jambs and 4-centred arch, with a late C17 panelled door. Other doors to the rear and on the first floor. Exposed close studding in some partition walls, withSuffolk' bracing. On the first floor is an original doorway similar to that on the ground floor, but plain chamfered, blocked, and an early C18 borrowed light with ovolo-moulded glazing bars. Crownpost roof with axial bracing, altered to a hip at the front. The stair tower has a C17/18 window with wrought-iron casement and rectangular leading, and an early C19 stair with turned newels, stick balusters and moulded pine handrail.

Listing NGR: TQ5981193918