Pettits Farmhouse
PETTITS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025006
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Pettits Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PETTITS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025006
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Pettits Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PETTITS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PETTITS FARMHOUSE, MOUNTNESSING LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Doddinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 60013 98236
Details
DODDINGHURST
TQ69NW MOUNTNESSING LANE 723-1/6/324 (South side) 20/02/76 Pettits Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD PETTITS LANE, Doddinghurst Pettits Farmhouse)
II
House. C15, mid-C16, late C18/early C19. Timber-framed and rendered with some brick, peg-tiled roof. L-plan of 3 units. 2 storeys. Irregular facade of 2 specific units. N block 2 storey, 2 window range with rendered stack to N. C20 wooden casements with top opening lights. Ground floor C20 porch with canted sides, glazed all round. Door C20 oak boarded with rounded head. S block, one and a half storey 3 window range, to N early C19 double casement window with glazing bars 4x2 panes, centre C20 canted bay window with principal and upper lights, to S, C20 refurbished, gabled dormer window, casement with top opening light. Central stack and S end gable stack both red brick. INTERIOR: the N block is earliest, C15, with jowled posts, flat laid joists with soffit tenons, said to have exterior tension braces and undecorated, simple crown post roof. Principal members have bold chamfers. The first floor has the evidence of 2 mullioned windows, one with a shutter groove. Phase 2 comprises the one and a half storeyed range of the mid-C16, central fireplace probably contemporary but now rebuilt. Floor joists remaining in N hand section are flat laid with diminished haunched soffit tenons, side purlin roof. S end much rebuilt - evidence obscured but later framing evident. In phase 3 the 2-storeyed range was constructed to the rear of the C15 block, slender framing late C18/early C19. C20 - whole house restored. Rear similar to front, casement windows. One early C19 fixed window survives with glazing bars 4x3 panes with a gabled dormer window over (restored with C20 casement window). (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 15: 58).
Listing NGR: TQ6001398236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373609
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921), 58
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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