Little Brewers

TL 51 SW MATCHING MATCHING TYE 3/51 Little Brewers

GV II

House, late c16, altered in C18, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned N-S, aspect W, with chimney stack in NE of middle bay, forming a lobby entrance. 2 storey porch extension to W of middle bay, C20, 2 storey extension to E. of N bay, forming an L plan, C20, 2 storey extension to S, 1977. 2 storeys. Ground floor, plain boarded door, 3 C20 casement windows. First floor, 4 C20 casements windows. Roof of shallow pitch, hipped at both ends. Framing partly exposed internally. Unglazed windows with 3 diamond mullions at upper floor at each end of original building, now enclosed by C20 extensions. Another on ground floor in E wall of middle bay. Heavy studding to a height of approx. 2.75 metres with some original wattle and daub infill, ends originally half-hipped. Walls raised by approx. 1.5 metres in C18 with lighter studding, and weatherboarded. Aperture cut in studding to W of chimney stack for external bread over, C18, later demolished. Original internal tiebeams removed. Converted to 3 tenements in early C19, and recorded in that form in the tithe award of 1843 (Essex Record Office D/CT 236 Plot 256), later recombined to form one house.

Listing NGR: TL5155111204