Ginge Petre Almshouses / Gingre Petre Almshouses

Date:
3 Sep 1999
Location:
Ginge Petre Almshouses, 1-4 Roman Road, Ingatestone And Fryerning, Brentwood, Essex, CM4 9AA
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Gingre Petre Almshouses, Roman Road, Ingatestone And Fryerning, Brentwood, Essex, CM4 9AA
Reference:
IOE01/00189/06
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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)

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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: TQ6430098854

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0432 IOE Records taken by Colleen Cole; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mrs Colleen Cole. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Cole, Colleen

Rights Holder: Cole, Colleen

Keywords

Brick, Slate, Medieval Almshouse, Tudor Religious Ritual And Funerary, Elizabethan Health And Welfare, Domestic, Residential Building, Plaque, Commemorative, Commemorative Monument, Terrace, Multiple Dwelling, Dwelling, Terraced House, Monument (By Form), House, Boiler House, Industrial, Steam Power Production Site, Power Generation Site