Lincolns Cottage

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BRENTWOOD

TQ59NE LINCOLNS LANE, Pilgrims Hatch 723-1/5/253 (East side) 20/02/76 Lincolns Cottage (Formerly Listed as: LINCOLNS LANE, South Weald Lincolns Cottage)

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House. Early C16, mid-C16, c1600, C20. Timber-framed, first floor rendered but principal ground floor studding exposed with additional imitation studding, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan with stack off centre to NW. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Front elevation, long continuous range, C20 lean-to brick and timber-framed porch at N end with roof as catslide fron principal roof, C20 boarded door. All windows are C20 casements with glazing bars. Ground floor, N-S, porch window 2-light, 4x2 panes, pair of 3-light windows each 6x3 panes and two 2-light , 4x3 panes, alternating. Either side of stack position are 2 studs with shoring notches. S end, 2-leaved boarded garage door. First floor, three 2-light windows, 4x3 panes and one 3-light 6x3 panes. Rear E elevation, rendered all over, windows irregular but in style of front. Ground floor, one 2-light window 4x3 panes, one 3-light, 6x3 panes and one fully glazed door, 3x5 panes. French window , each leaf 3x5 panes. First floor, two 3-light windows 6x3 panes, two 2-light windows 4x3 and 4x2 panes, two single lights, 3x2 and 2x2 panes. S gable end elevation, ground floor, mixed studding (original and imitation), first floor one 2-light window as front elevation, 4x3 panes. N gable end, ground floor, one 2-light window 4x2 panes, first floor single light 2x2 panes, attic, one single light 2x2 panes. INTERIOR: although the walls are considerably restored and the studding concealed there is evidence of a medieval hall house in the principal posts and transverse menbers which are considerably decorated and of singular design. Service bay (to N) has internal arched bracing. Cross entry undershot beneath upper service chamber with richly moulded head-beam to hall with cyma, roll and hollow mouldings. Hall principal truss has tie-beam similarly decorated with roll mouldings. Roof trusses of queen post, clasped side purlin type. Over 3 bayed hall, principal tie-beam with evidence of deep board-like arched braces between queen posts and collar, creating a Gothic arch with many pegs, collars thinned in centres away from joints to vertical board-like sections. Side purlins throughout roof have shallow inner chamfer, rafters pegged through. Roof over hall sooted. High end (to S) storeyed, 2 long bays, central truss, open arched braces on first floor, 2 queen posts above with inward curve to collar (simpler version of hall treatment) roll moulded binding joist off centre half a bay towards hall, probably denotes passage way direct to high end rooms from outside. At rear of stack, inserted into hall upper 2 bays, is a solid partition frame with cambered tie-beam and lower cross-beam with principal truss above, purpose not clear but most probably the back framing of a timber chimney or hood, set within the 2-bayed high end of the hall. Brick stack inserted c1600, abutting this partition towards hall low end. Inserted floor contemporary, having deep section joists with diminished haunched tenons. Binding joist and common joists with chamfers finished off by very long lamb's tongue stops. At service end in NW corner, stair well, constructed at same time with octagonal sectioned newel post, together with a second exterior door alongside the cross-passage door at the foot of the stair. This unusual house must date to the earlier C16 as indicated by decoration and sooting prior to the insertion of the brick stack. Queen post roofs in Essex are normally a hundred years later, at least but here they must be contemporary. The posts with wide board-like bracing have a Western flavour. The cross entry set beneath an internally jettied upper chamber is not a normal Essex feature. The confinement of hearth smoke within a timber hood probably dates to the later C16 with the brick stack and floors following fairly soon after.

Listing NGR: TQ5625295352

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