Jericho Priory

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BLACKMORE

TL6001 CHURCH STREET 723-1/15/7 (East side) 27/08/52 Jericho Priory (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD CHURCH STREET, Blackmore (East side) Jericho Priory)

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House. C18, incorporating a timber-framed range of C17 or earlier, altered and extended in late C19 and early C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Square plan with 4 angle towers, entrance elevation to N, with internal stack to right of centre and 2 external stacks to left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. C18 service wing to left, aligning with front left angle tower, and late C19 extension to it with stack in end walls, and gambrel roof, 2 storeys with attics. C20 single-storey conservatory with flat roof to rear of left rear angle tower, extending to left. The entrance elevation of the main house has on the ground floor one sash of 6+6 lights, 2 of 4+4 lights, and 3 blocked apertures, all with segmental flat brick arches. First floor, 5 similar sashes of 4+4 lights and one blocked aperture. Second floor, 2 sashes of 2+2 lights, and 4 blocked apertures. C20 door in early C20 gabled porch in Gothic style, with coupled rafter roof of high quality. Egg-and-dart eaves cornice of moulded brick. The roof is hipped in 3 E-W ranges, bridging the shallow recess between the angle towers at the front, and the deeper recess at the back; the hipped roofs of the angle towers connect with the main roofs. Perforated ridge tiles, late C19. The front elevation of the service wing has on the ground floor an oval window with casement, marginal lights, and dressed brick surround, next to the main house, and to left of it 3 sashes of 6+6 lights with segmental arches, 2 of which are in the late C19 extension. First floor, 4 similar sashes of 3+6 lights, 2 of which are in the late C19 extension. All the windows, in this and other elevations, appear to have been renewed in the early C20 in early C18 style. The gabled roof of the service wing is of machine-made red clay tiles. The brick courses of the C18 and late C19 parts align, but the bricks are of different quality, with a straight joint between. The S (garden) elevation of the main house has on the ground floor one sash of 4+4 lights in the left angle tower (the other masked by the C20 conservatory), with four C20 French windows between with altered brick arches, the brickwork above them rebuilt to the windows above. First floor, 2:4:2 range of sashes of 4+4, 6+6, and 4+4 lights respectively. Second floor, similar range of 2+2 and 3+3 lights. All the original window arches are segmental-flat and gauged; the C20 arches of the French window arches are shallower. All the arches of this elevation (and their pointing) have been coloured a brighter red than the adjacent brickwork. Deep plaster coving above central part, with partly set into it a stone sundial inscribed 'Sine sole inutus sum'. Egg-and-dart moulded brick cornice on angle towers only. The W elevation (to Church Street) has on the ground floor 2 sashes of 4+4 lights, 2 of 6+6 and 2 blank apertures, similar to those of the entrance elevation. First floor, 2 sashes of 4+4 sashes, one of 6+6, and 4 blank apertures. Second floor 2 sashes of 2+2 lights, one of 3+3, half-glassed emergency door and 3 blank apertures. 2 brick giant pilasters enclosing central windows. Cornice similar to that of entrance front, and 5 hips. The C18 rear left service range is of red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles, with C20 casements, flat-roofed dormers and skylights, late C19 perforated ridge tiles. The E gable end has a regular pattern of blue headers. Lean-to greenhouse to S, treble garage to E. INTERIOR: main house is mainly styled in the early C20. The 2 ground-floor rooms at the rear have boxed axial beams, and are reported to have timber-framed walls, now concealed by C20 finishes, indicating that a range approximately 9m x 5m of C17 or earlier origin was incorporated in the present house in the C18. One wide wood-burning hearth on the N side of this is of handmade bricks, with C20 pointing of cement mortar, jambs 0.46m wide, C20 low arch; this possibly survives from the earlier house. The C18 wood-burning hearth back to back with it has a C20 mantel beam. The C18 front left hearth has a C20 mantel beam and pointing of cement mortar. In the rear left service range, on the first floor, is a cast-iron grate of c1800. The legend reported in the 1976 list is taken from P Morant, which traces the ownership from the dissolution of the Augustinian Priory in 1527. The C18 vehicle access was from Church Street, until the early C20, when this was converted to a foot access, and a new main access was made to Ingatestone Road on the E. (Morant P: The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex: 1768-: 56-7).

Listing NGR: TL6033301658

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Sources

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Morant, P, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, (1768), 56-7

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