Ginge Petre Almshouses

INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING TQ6499 ROMAN ROAD, Ingatestone 723-1/14/411 (South East side) 20/02/76 Nos.5-8 (consec) Ginge Petre Almshouses and Chapel (Formerly Listed as: I BRENTWOOD ROMAN ROAD, Ingatestone Ginge Petre Almshouses) GV II

Terrace of almshouses and Roman Catholic chapel. 1840. Renovated in 1978 by Trehearne and Norman Preston. Red brick with black headers in diaper patterns, and dressings ot-gaurt brick, roofed with fishscale .slates. One terrace of 4 almshouses facing NW, with chapel in centre, forming the rear of a quadrangle enclosed on 2 sides by other terraces. Tudor Revival style. Single storey. Nos 5 & 8 (at the ends) each have 2 original cast-iron latticed casement windows, with chamfered jambs and segmental arches, and a central boarded door with vertical moulded fillets, and chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch of gault brick. Nos 6 & 7 are similar, but each have only one window. Dogtooth eaves course. The black headers are glazed. Diagonal chimney shafts of red and black bricks in 1-2-2-1 arrangement. Ridge tiles of red clay. The gables have copings and kneelers of gault brick. The left gable end has 3 buttresses of red brick, covering the diaper pattern. The right gable end is not buttressed, with a diaper pattern all over, but a small area is repaired with Flettons. The diaper pattern continues on the original rear elevation. The rear windows are C20 casements. The chapel has a gable wall standing one brick forward of the remainder of the front elevation, with 2 smaller windows in similar style, a similar central door, and a corbelled bell-turret without a bell. INTERIOR: rectangular and plain, with a coved ceiling, a central panel outlined by plaster mouldings, and 2 plaster roses in the middle; the larger, upper rose is white, the smaller, lower rose is painted red. Rear extensions of red brick with slate roofs to Nos 6 & 7 meet behind the chapel.

Listing NGR: TQ6475599277