60, HIGH STREET
60, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197218
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 60, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 60, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-10-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/06785/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197218
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 60, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 60, HIGH 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:
- 60, HIGH 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 59401 93729
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ5993 HIGH STREET 723-1/12/66 (South side) 21/10/58 No.60
GV II
House now shop. c1400 and late C16. Timber-framed, plastered, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan with rear extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. N front elevation, broad gable to street, ground floor C20 shop with fully glazed window and door. At W side, passageway of South Street through from High Street to rear. First floor, two C19 sash windows, with horns. Second-floor attic window in gable, similar but with central glazing bars to sashes 2x2 panes. Rear, S elevation, gable merges on W side with timber-framed and plastered addition to No.62 (qv). Smaller block butted to gable end, part jettied, ground floor weatherboarded with C19 fixed window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. First floor, C19 sash window with glazing bars, 4x2 panes. To S small single-storey timber-framed block, plastered and weatherboarded with peg-tiled roof. At S end of range C19 brick 2-storey block, slate roof. To W on ground floor, segment headed doorway with plain C20 door. At S end, 2-storey bay windows, C19, of 3 cants, both ground and first-floor windows have a casement window in each cant with glazing bars, 2x2 panes, also upper top hung casement with central glazing bar, 2 panes, pebble dash rendering between windows and simple cornice above each. INTERIOR: rear face of doorway of heavy proportions with deep 2-centred arched head set on W side of South Street passage, surrounding timber framing considerably replaced by brickwork, especially towards frontage. Probably originally jettied to street but evidence now absent. First floor considerably obscured but 3 principal bays, one with cambered tie-beam and arched brace, wall plate and brace chamfered, also collar purlin of a crown post roof. At rear, door or window head with adjacent heavy tension brace. Further to rear added block jettied on W side, inferior later studding, probably late C16. Rail on W side below windows suggests that original purpose was a small gallery. On High Street frontage a cornice of classical profile remains within present room showing that the frontage is now slightly built out to the street. The building was a cross-wing to a hall house that continues into No.62 (qv) and probably onto the site of No.64 (qv). The visible doorway in South Street led from a hall to the the W into the cross-wing. Nos 60, 62 & 64 form a group. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex : Monument 8: 36).
Listing NGR: TQ5940193729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921), 36
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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