Two Door Cottage

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BRENTWOOD

TQ5890 GREAT WARLEY STREET, Great Warley 723-1/17/141 (East side) 21/10/58 No.2 Two Door Cottage

GV II*

House. C13, c1500, C18, C20. Timber-framed, rendered and colourwashed, roof peg tiled. Plan rectangular range with cross-wing to N, projecting to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and one storey and attic, hipped roof with central stack in front of roof apex and second stack at S end, to rear. Front, W elevation, all windows and doors are C20. Ground floor, N -S, cross-wing, fixed window with glazing bars, 3x2 panes, door, moulded architrave, upper glazing, 3x3 panes, single lower fielded panel, 3-light casement window with glazing bars, 6x3 panes, door, simple hood, upper glazing, 4x4 panes, single lower fielded panel, 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. First floor, N -S, cross-wing, sash window, main range, 2 gabled dormer attic windows, peg-tiled roofs, 2-light casements, 4x3 panes. Rear, main range has C18 red brick out-shut with roof in continuous catslide, irregular C20 windows. N-S, ground floor, French window of single panes, weather-boarded flat roofed C20 addition, C18 out-shut has two 2-light C20 casement windows, C20 flat roofed addition with picture window and door with upper glazed panel and sunk lower panel. First floor, N-S, cross-wing C20 sash windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, main range, dormer attic window, weatherboarded with C20 casement window with glazing bars, 4x2 panes, S end with C20 sky light and stack above. S end elevation, early block weatherboarded and rendered, C18 lean-to, weatherboarded - C20 brick addition, rendered. INTERIOR: cross-wing first floor, square sectioned tie-beam, braces of archaic incomplete curvature, unjowled posts and splayed scarf joint with under-squinted butts in adjacent wall plate, dates the framing to C13. Service buttery and pantry doors below on ground floor, early, with 2-centred heads. Framing above with arched bracing on hall side, binding joist of ground floor ceiling with stud mortices and wattle groove for buttery/pantry division wall. Later medieval hall butted to old cross-wing with evidence of hall detail preserved in rear wall, cross-passage door head and mortice for spere head beam in door post, below, rising mortice for arched brace from door post to spere beam. Sooted crown post had four-way braces and broach stop at base on principal hall tie-beam set near service end with arched braces, rear brace sits on continuing fillet stopped as a corbel, 3 mullion mortices survive as evidence of rear hall window. High end storied room, narrow original window to first floor, probably above tie-beam and roof with half hip, not fully hipped as now. Later alteration includes the building af a stack in the low end of the hall, backing onto cross-passage, and associated inserted first floor of hall with elm bridging joist having lambs' tongue and roll chamfer stops typical of early C17. Newel stair and small fireplace in high-end room probably contemporary. It is said that the rear window of the hall had external shutter grooves -an unusual feature. The house has several relatively rare features surviving from the medieval periods and clearly shows the evolution of a domestic building. Two Door Cottage forms a group with other buildings around the green. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 7: 62).

Listing NGR: TQ5836790668

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Sources

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An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921), 62

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