Blue House Farmhouse

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE MAGPIE LANE, Little Warley 723-1/8/225 (South side) 20/02/76 Blue House Farmhouse

II

House. C17, early C19. Timber-framed and weatherboarded, hipped peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan, principal stack set to rear of roof apex, off centre to W. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic. Front, N elevation, 3 window range with central front door. Windows all sashes with thin glazing bars, 4x4 panes, all except one, are essentially early C19 with bead moulding on frames, one, ground floor, N end renewed in later C19, of differing proportion, without moulding and with horned sashes. Central door, C20 renewal, upper glazing with glazing bars, 3x4 panes and lower boarded panel. Rear, S elevation, pebble sash rendered, 3 window range, similar to front. Ground floor, W-E, window, 4x4 panes, window 5x4 panes, early C19 timber-framed bakehouse addition, weatherboarded with hipped pantiled roof, having casement window with glazing bars, 5x2 panes, plain C20 stable type door with gauze panel. First floor, W-E, 2 sash windows, 4x4 panes, C19 casement window with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. Principal stack and subsidiary bakehouse stack at E end, through roof pitch, both C19. Dormer window over central bay with peg-tiled roof, casement of 4x4 panes. W elevation, plain, pebble dash rendered. E elevation weatherboarded with ground floor C20 conservatory porch, pebble dash rendered, 3 pane upper glazing and door with upper glazed panel and lower boarded panel. Within, C20 house door with upper glazed panel, lower sunk panel, one 2-light casement window and one single light casement window. Rear extension has C20 boarded door. The exterior appearance of the house with 3 bays of uneven width and asymmetrical stack set to rear suggests an C17 origin. INTERIOR: evidence much reworked in C19 but roof at W end is oak, of C17 clasped side purlin type. Both W end ground and first floor rooms have central axial joists with C17 lamb's tongue chamfered stops. Fireplaces all rebuilt but siting and anomaly in interior C19 beaded boarding of front wall suggest front door was originally in line with the stack and the house was a C17, 3-celled lobby entrance type. C19 refurbishment and C20 repairs, particularly of the back wall and lowering of the E end roof pitch after bomb damage have further obscured the original form.

Listing NGR: TQ5978090381