ELM HOUSE

ELM HOUSE, 108, CHELMSFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197191
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: ELM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ELM HOUSE, 108, CHELMSFORD ROAD

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Date:: 2002-06-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197191
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: ELM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ELM HOUSE, 108, CHELMSFORD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ELM HOUSE, 108, CHELMSFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 61038 95646

Details

BRENTWOOD

TQ69NW CHELMSFORD ROAD, Shenfield 723-1/6/262 (North West side) 20/02/76 No.108 Elm House

II

House. Early C17, extended in C18, C19 and C20. Timber-framed, mainly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, partly plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range facing approx SE with a central stack, forming a lobby-entrance plan. Later wing to rear centre, one bay. Originally of one storey and attics, the main range was raised to 2 full storeys clad in brick, and extended to the right in the late C18. Lean-to extensions of various dates and sizes across the full width at the rear, and C20 single-storey extension to rear right of them. 3 mid-C19 sashes of 3+3 lights on each floor, with segmental brick arches on the ground floor only. 4-panel door in C20 gabled porch. Hipped roof. The left elevation is of ashlared plaster, mostly covered by attached garages. The frame includes much elm, with primary straight bracing. INTERIOR: the left ground-floor room has a chamfered axial beam of elm, unstopped, and a wide wood-burning hearth with 0.23m jambs and chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops, reduced to half its original size with C19 brickwork; C18/early C19 2-panel pine door to stair behind stack. The ground-floor room to right of the stack has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops; 3 posts are similarly treated; C20 small wood-burning hearth. On the first floor the original wallplate is exposed in the rear wall, with a face-halved and bladed scarf, and lighter framing above it where the roof has been raised approx one metre. The upper left room has a floor of butt-edged hardwood boards. The middle room has 2 early C18 moulded 3-plank doors to left, and a plain boarded and battened door to right, all on original hinges. A plain battened door to the rear of the right ground-floor room is introduced, in a C20 frame.

Listing NGR: TQ6103895646

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Legacy System number:: 373387
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.