Rosebrook
ROSEBROOK, CHILDERDITCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197195
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Rosebrook
- Statutory Address:
- ROSEBROOK, CHILDERDITCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197195
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Rosebrook
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSEBROOK, CHILDERDITCH STREET
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:
- ROSEBROOK, CHILDERDITCH STREET
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 61460 90233
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ69SW CHILDERDITCH STREET, Childerditch 723-1/9/58 (East side) 20/02/76 Rosebrook (Formerly Listed as: CHILDERDITCH STREET, Childerditch Rosebrook Cottage)
GV II*
House. c1500, C17 and C20 alterations. Timber-frame part exposed, rendered with weatherboarding. Peg-tiled roof. L-plan but wing to SE entirely C20 and not included in this listing. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Front, SW elevation, jettied, gabled facade with roof continued down as cat slide on NW side over ground floor out-shut. Rendered under jetty with central, C20, 3-light casement window, out-shut weatherboarded with 2-light casement window. First floor, exposed close studded framing, tension braced, C20 2-light casement window. Tie-beam with cyma, return, hollow chamfer moulding, turned to have once continued round an oriel window, also mortice holes in framing for original window head and supporting lower brackets. SE elevation, ground floor rendered with two 3-light mullioned windows, original frames, mullions both repaired and reinstated. First floor, close studded - 2 bays end tension braces, 2 mullioned windows of 3 lights, one original and one old but intruded. C17 stack to NE end of roof ridge. NW elevation, continuous catslide roof. Stack to E end, C20 weatherboarded ground floor, two C20 3-light casement windows. C20 door to W of centre, upper glazing with glazing bars, 3x3 panes. lower flush boarded panel. INTERIOR: medieval block 2 bayed, a `high' end cross-wing to a hall, once to NW. Ground floor, 2 `high' end access doors on NW side with depressed 4-centred heads, hollow chamfered. Jambs of both door frames have mortices for bench draught screens. Rear bay has stair trap adjacent to hall doorway. Candle/rush light burn marks on centre post. Rear third bay C17 extension, primary braced studding, elm binding joist with lamb's tongue chamfer stops, ceiling joist `clamp' on exterior face of original block for extension. C17 restored fireplace on NE end. Out-shut considerably restored but late C17 or early C18 framing taken round NE end to enclose stack. First floor, original block, crown post roof, post of heavy square section, chamfered corners wih broach stops, 2-way braced. Collar purlin stops short against single remaining hip rafter at NE end - block was of 2 bays with rear hipped roof. Shutter groove for front window and original, extant side window. Front corner posts, un-jowled, exterior tension bracing at rear and also on NW wall (under later catslide roof). Simple triangular stops on central tie-beam (and also on bridging joist below). Rear, C17 bay has NW plate joined to original plate with halved and bridled scarf with central face peg, suggesting early C17 date for addition. Upper framing of cross-wing on original hall side has no sooting, implying open hall was heated by enclosed fire from the beginning, suggesting high status. Rosebrook and Woodlands (qv) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ6146090233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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