Q8 Petroleum Service Station

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BRENTWOOD

TQ69SW HUTTON ROAD, Shenfield 723-1/9/276 (South West side) 21/10/58 No.21 Q8 Petroleum Service Station (Formerly Listed as: HUTTON ROAD, Shenfield Glanthams)

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Formerly known as: Glanthams PRIESTS LANE. House, now service station. C14, extended and altered in C17, early C19 and C20. Timber-framed, with early C19 facade of red brick in Flemish bond, remainder weatherboarded, red brick and render, with some exposed studding, roofed with handmade and machine-made red clay tiles. C14 2-bay hall facing NE, with C16 stack in right bay in front of axis. 2-bay service cross-wing to right, and C17/18 external stack to right of front bay, truncated at eaves level. C17 stair tower to rear of right bay of hall, and later wing to rear of left bay, with an external stack in the angle between them (mainly rebuilt in C19). Single-storey lean-to extension to right of stair tower. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The ground floor is mainly occupied by C20 showroom windows and a glazed door, with small areas of the early C19 brick facade. Band of cement render at first-floor level, and 3 early C19 sashes of 8+8, 6+6 and 8+8 lights respectively with flat arches of gauged brick above. The brickwork of the facade is of high quality, with red mortar in the joints, and white tuck pointing, in some places crossing the bricks to maintain the regular pattern. Left end of hall roof hipped; the front pitch clad with handmade tiles, the rear pitch with machine-made tiles. The cross-wing has an original gablet hip at the front, an C18/early C19 hip at the rear, all clad with machine-made tiles. The facade continues round the left return of the main range, to a straight joint at the rear wing; it has on the ground floor a blocked original window aperture with a flat arch of gauged brick, and an original doorway with a semi-elliptical arch of gauged brick, blocked tympanum, moulded plaster surround (altered at the left jamb), and a C20 half-glazed door; one C19 inserted casement above. Beyond the straight joint are 2 mid-C19 sashes of 3+3 lights with segmental brick arches; other windows are C20 casements. This wing is roofed with handmade tiles. The butt of a beam projects from the right elevation at first-floor level. The rear elevation of the right cross-wing has one C19 casement on the first floor; a defective similar casement in the rear elevation of the stair tower. The facade extends round the right return as far as the external stack, with flue headers on the first floor only. INTERIOR of the ground floor is wholly faced with modern finishes. The only visible features of the earlier structure are a chamfered axial beam with roll stops, part of the C16 inserted floor in the left bay of the hall, and the mantel beam of the C16 inserted stack, which is moulded on the left side, deeply chamfered to the right, with no brickwork below it; it is not clear what supports the remainder of the stack above. The bricks are 0.23-0.24m long, 0.05m high, width indeterminate; the upper part, in the apex of the roof and above, has been rebuilt in the C19. The structure of the hall is largely intact above first-floor level, with chamfered posts and wallplates with mitred stops; the front wallplate has been severed for an early C19 sash in the left bay, and may be similarly severed in the right bay. Hollow-chamfered cranked central tie-beam, with hollow-chamfered arched braces to it. A small section has been cut out of the front brace for an inserted closet door; the rear brace appears to be present in a partition wall. The tie-beam has mortices for moulded covings. The front wall has been raised about 1.20m above the original wallplate, leaving most of the original wall and roof structure in situ. Cross-quadrate crownpost with 2 curved braces rising to meet the rafters immediately below the collar; collar-purlin and axial braces missing. In the left bay of the roof 3 original rafter couples and collars are complete. Other original rafters have been re-set, and the former gable has been altered to a hip in the C18/early C19, with a higher softwood roof to the front only. The cross-wing has posts with long tapering jowls; these and the left wallplate are chamfered and stopped as in the hall; the right wallplate is concealed. The central tie-beam has been severed, and the crownpost formerly mounted on it moved slightly to the rear. The front bay of the roof is otherwise complete, with collar-purlin, collars, rafters, and gablet hip. The rear bay is intact except for a hip inserted in the C18/early C19. Some pink paint remains, not original, but surviving from the period when the crownpost was moved. Hardwood butt-edged floorboards. On the first floor of the whole building are 5 C18/early C19 plain boarded and ledged internal doors with original hinges. The rear left wing is much modernised internally. The stair tower is still in use as such.

Listing NGR: TQ6079694837

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