Patsalls

TQ 49 SE CHIGWELL PUDDING LANE 5/1 Patsalls 14/4/82 - II

Hall house, late medieval, altered in C17, c19 and C20. Mainly timber framed and plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles, and later sections in stock brick and red brick, Flemish bond. Aligned approx. NE-SW, end on to Pudding Lane, consisting of a 2-bay hall with inserted floor, a SW crosswing, early C17, with a chimney stack at the junction, a later extension beyond in stock brick with end chimney stack, and a NE crosswing of red brick with 2 chimney stacks in the SW wall, C19. Lean-to extension to SE of the hall with catslide roof, and tiled gabled porch, C19. Hall of one storey with attics, the remainder of 2 storeys. SE elevation. The SW crosswing is jettied, the wall below the jetty clad in red brick with an oriel window of 7 fixed lights and one wrought iron casement, ovolo moulded, early C17, and on the first floor a similar window, restored, flush with the wall. 3 leaded casement windows, C20, porch with glazed 4-panel door and carved bargeboards with trefoil piercings anda group of 3 Gothick windows with 4-centred arched heads, leaded glass, some of it coloured, and marginal lights, C19. First flour, 2 C20 leaded casement windows and another in a gabled dormer. NW elevation, weatherboarded on hall, plastered and exposed brick elsewhere. The first floor window of the SW crosswing is a restored original window, early C17 with 2 ovolo-moulded mullions and surrounds and an introduced casement. All other windows in this elevation are C20 leaded casements. The date 1424 is inscribed in modern plaster in the gable of the SW crosswing. The floor in this crosswing has exposed joists of horizontal section. The inserted floor in the hall consists of an axial beam, plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and exposed joists of deep section supported on clamps, originally plastered to the soffits. In the C19 this house became a lodge to Pettits Hall, and much of the treatment of the SE elevation dates from this phase.

Listing NGR: TQ4547194819