Old School, Brentwood School

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BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 INGRAVE ROAD 723-1/12/85 (North East side) 21/10/58 Old School, Brentwood School

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Schoolroom, now part of larger school. 1568, dormitory over added 1855, extended in C18/19. By Edmund and Dorothy Huddlestone. Red brick in English bond, extensions in Flemish bond, with limestone dressings to windows, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Rectangular plan aligned NW-SE, abutting on later buildings at both ends. The original school was a single-storey classroom 10.33 x 6.01m internally. EXTERIOR: the SW long wall of the original building, facing Ingrave Road, has two C19 stone mullioned casements of 3 lights and 2 of 2 lights, and a central doorway with chamfered jambs and Tudor arch leading to an C18/19 long porch which terminates at the street boundary and is blocked there, with a C19 parapet gable, roofed with machine-made red clay tiles. The original brickwork rises to a height of approximately 4.50m. 0.70m below the top are 3 rectangular apertures with iron grills. The C19 upper storey has four 2-light casements in similar style to those below, and a dogtooth eaves course. C18/19 brick walls abut on the porch, forming the boundary with the street. The NE elevation has on the ground floor 2 stone mullioned casements of 4 lights with a straight head and segmental rear-arch; the stonework is partly restored. The bricks are 0.23 x 0.11 x 0.05m, 4 courses rising 0.27m. A stone plaque states that the Elizabethan brickwork was restored and re-pointed in 1963, architect Rex Foster. Cement render to 0.25m above ground; tiled step 1.95m above ground. On the first floor are two 3-light casements in similar style. 2 skylights in this pitch of roof. Parapet gables to NW and SE In the middle of the NW wall, abutting on School House (qv), is an original doorway, arch missing, with an old plain boarded and ledged door and hinges, and above it a foundation stone with Latin inscriptions and the date 1568 on both sides. INTERIOR: semi-elliptical barrel-vault plaster ceiling, probably original, with moulded cornices on both long sides. Numerous graffiti on the wooden sills of the NE windows. In the middle of the NE wall is a C19/20 fireplace and late C16/early C17 carved oak overmantel and canopy removed in 1953 from the demolished Weald Hall, South Weald, home of the founder of the school, Sir Antony Browne. Also in 1953 oak panelling removed from Mitre House (qv) was installed here; at the NW end this is late C16, the remainder C19. Illustrations of c1820 and 1847 show the SW elevation as having 4 plain rectangular windows with wooden mullions and diamond glazing, one axial stack near the middle and one at the right end, and 2 windows in the left gable end; there last have been seen during building operations in 1926 and earlier. The porch and boundary wall are shown much as at present, except that the doorway with a semi-elliptical head was in use, and the parapet gable over it was not shown. An internal photograph of c1913 shows an iron stove against the NE wall, and a boarded dado removed for the present panelling; other features as at present. (Lewis RR: The History of Brentwood School: 1981-: 20-22, 120-1).

Listing NGR: TQ5976493841

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Sources

Books and journals
Lewis, R R, The History of Brentwood School, (1981), 20-22
Lewis, R R, The History of Brentwood School, (1981), 120-121

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