Barnards House, Brentwood School

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BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 INGRAVE ROAD 723-1/12/84 (East side) 21/10/58 Barnards House, Brentwood School

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House of second Master of Brentwood School. Early C17, early C18. Red brick with burnt headers, Flemish bond, peg tile and slate on roof. L-plan of 3 units. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic, parapet with dentilled cornice and coping and plain brick string course between ground and first floor. W, front elevation, 5 bays with lean-to ground floor addition with window at N end. All windows segment headed, flush sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Central front door has 4 fielded panels and rectangular fanlight with 7 oval lights. Cornice hood on console brackets. 2 dormer windows with hipped roofs and casement windows behind parapet. Rear E elevation. Timber-framed, rendered and ashlar lined gable end of rear W-E wing with central C19 stack, ground floor lean-to round stacks and N side with small casement window. 2 attic windows, one with single, and one with double casement lights - casements with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. To S roof continued down over C20 brick lean-to. Ground floor double casement window with glazing bars, 4x2 panes. First floor, sash window. Behind, to N, rear of front range with N lean-to having C19 door with 2 central glazed lights and surrounding narrow side lights. Rectangular fanlight above. N elevation, principal brick range to W with burnt headers, 2 first-floor windows are blocked, one 2-light window with upper transom. Timber-framed range to E, rendered and ashlar lined, ground floor, triple casement window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes, plain C20 door with simple hood. First floor, 2 sash windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, simple hoods, another similar at lower level at W end. Dormer window with hipped roof, 2 casement lights with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. S end elevation, principal brick block to W with central stacks, blocked first-floor window to E of stack. C20 lean-to addition, rendered brickwork, first floor weatherboarded, slate roof. Ground floor, 2-light casement window and simple boarded door. INTERIOR: rear timber-framed wing has axial ceiling joists on ground and first floors, both with distinctive early C17 lamb's tongue chamfer stops with additional decorative V cut, also timber-framing using primary bracing exposed. Principal range although now of brick, has early C17 timber-framed core. Principal roof trusses are sling braced (the sling braces necessarily terminate on storey posts) such bracing frees the attic of tie-beams, allowing free movement throughout. There is an early timber stair and the hall area has early C19 panelling. Ground floor rooms have internal shutters and one fireplace has roundel decoration on the architrave. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was acquired by Brentwood School before the 1939-45 War. Barnards House was formerly called The Hollies, and then Newnum House before being given the present name, commemorating Daniel Barnard, schoolmaster, 1655-95. Barnards House, School House (qv) and Old School (qv), all of Brentwood School form a group. (Lewis RR: The History of Brentwood School: 1981-: 249).

Listing NGR: TQ5976693842

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Sources

Books and journals
Lewis, R R, The History of Brentwood School, (1981), 249

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