Great West Hatch

TQ 49 SW CHIGWELL HIGH ROAD WEST SIDE 4/45 Great West Hatch GV II

House, early C19, now a residential institution. Stock bricks, stucco dressings, roof not visible behind parapet but presumably of slate. 2 parallel ranges aligned approx. N-S, aspect W, the rear range projecting at both sides to form a broad T-plan. Chimney stacks at both ends of front range and in the SW angle. 2 storeys and basement. Central half-glazed double doors with plain fanlight, porch with 2 Doric columns and pilasters, fluted architrave with rosettes, at head of 5 stone steps. 4 double-hung sash windows of 12 lights under flat arches of gauged brick. First floor, 5 similar windows, the central one in a shallow recess with round arch of gauged brick. The door and inner windows stand slightly forward of the rest. Stucco string course at first-floor level. Enriched cornice, and parapet with 3 recessed panels in the middle. Rear range has the same string course, cornice and parapet, with 4 dummy window recesses in the W elevation of each wing. At the N end of the rear range there is a bow of 3 curved double-hung sash windows of 16 lights, ground floor only.

Listing NGR: TQ4314492442