Orchard House With Garden Wall and Orchard Wall
ORCHARD HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL AND ORCHARD WALL, THORNDON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197256
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House With Garden Wall and Orchard Wall
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL AND ORCHARD WALL, THORNDON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197256
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House With Garden Wall and Orchard Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL AND ORCHARD WALL, THORNDON PARK
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:
- ORCHARD HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL AND ORCHARD WALL, THORNDON PARK
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:
- TQ6136491593
Details
TQ69SW
723-1/9/124
BRENTWOOD
THORNDON PARK
Orchard House with garden wall and orchard wall
II
House and walls of conjoined garden and orchard. 1764. For
Lord Petre. House red brick with slate roof; walls red brick
with stone coping. House and garden wall 330m SW of Thorndon
Hall (qv) and contemporary with it. To S rectangular orchard
walls, 130m x 100m, main axis aligned SW-NE. Garden walls a
similar rectangle but smaller, 55m x 40m, set centrally
against N side on same axis. Centrally, in wall common to both
is Orchard House, of similar build. Also centrally on N side
of the garden wall is Garden House, originally of similar
build but considerably altered and now not of special
historical interest and not included in this listing.
Orchard wall: red brick, Flemish bond, some burnt headers,
4.2m high, opposed internal and external shallow buttresses at
5.7m intervals, battered at the top. Simple stone coping
which, on E and W sides is stepped down hill-slope, falling to
S in 16 steps. Corners curved, principal gateway with simple
piers at N end of W wall (some C19 rebuilding). Minor simple
doorways at N end of E wall and S end of W wall.
Orchard House: central in N wall, facing S. 3 window range, 2
storey, dentilled eave and central pediment, slate hipped
roof. Outer bays have C19 and C20 rebuilding and have ground
floor segment headed windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes,
first-floor windows similar but straight headed. Centre bay,
first-floor window similar, segment headed, 3x4 panes. Ground
floor has blocked central doorway, now with segment headed
window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. To E of house, C20
extension masking orchard wall, to W, segment headed doorway
through wall to garden to N, also C20 wide doorway with
sliding doors.
Garden wall: similar to orchard wall but without buttresses,
coping of shaped and sloping bricks, single stepping on W
side. Principal gateways at S ends of E and W walls. E one now
blocked with half-height wall. Piers have stone copings and
high included stone blocks (like imposts). 2 simple C20
doorways at NE angle, one in N and one in E walls. Symmetrical
in N wall, either side of Garden House are 2 brick
semicircular niches large enough for seats, walling thickened
round them, coped back to wall above. Round headed arches have
stone imposts and keystone. Niche to W now cut through by C20
doorway. Walling between niches and house reworked in C20,
also C20 flat roofed single-storey room on NW corner of
garden. S side of garden (facing N), C18 single storey brick
lean-tos, slate roofs. To W of centre, passage through,
doorway with stable doors, also two 3x3 paned metal casement
windows. To E of centre, 3 fixed C20 casement windows (some
rebuilding of the wall).
N rear elevation of Orchard House reflects S front, all
windows replaced in PVC casements, central door blocked with
segment headed window each side, 2x2 panes, single replacement
windows in each rebuilt end, E 4x2 panes, W 2x2 panes. First
floor, central segment headed window 3x3 panes. C20 red brick
extension to E end of house in similar segment headed style.
Listing NGR: TQ6136491593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373562
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 15 Essex,
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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