Browne's Charity Almshouses and Chapel
BROWNE'S CHARITY ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPEL, 1-10, WIGLEY BUSH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197264
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Browne's Charity Almshouses and Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BROWNE'S CHARITY ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPEL, 1-10, WIGLEY BUSH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197264
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Browne's Charity Almshouses and Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROWNE'S CHARITY ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPEL, 1-10, WIGLEY BUSH LANE
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:
- BROWNE'S CHARITY ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPEL, 1-10, WIGLEY BUSH LANE
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 57151 93611
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ5793 WIGLEY BUSH LANE, South Weald 723-1/16/299 (East side) 21/10/58 Nos.1-10 (consec) Browne's Charity Almshouses and Chapel (Formerly Listed as: VICARAGE LANE, South Weald (East side) The Almshouses (Browne's Charity))
II
Formerly known as: The Almshouses South Weald Village. Almshouses. 1858. By S Teulon. Red brick with stone dressings to windows and doors, peg-tiled roof. Long group, stepped down along Wigley Bush Lane. Plan comprises 10 cottage units in a row with central chapel with axis at right angles, group breaks forward roughly symmetrically each side of chapel and N and S end cottages have axes at right angles to create prominent gable ends as belvederes with ornamental figures in Gothic niches. A classical composition with Gothic detail. Well head, free standing, set at break forward, S of chapel. Cottage units single storey, with one large and one smaller room, expressed with 3-light and 2-light casement windows, front door between. Windows have mullions and transoms with diamond leaded panes. Doors boarded with iron work in arched doorhead with rectangular surround. Roof steep and eaves carried forward on brackets to create a pentice. Stack at each gable end. Chapel W gable end, buttressed angles, 3-light window in 2-centred arch with geometrical tracery, head stops to labels and lifted string course below framing. Cross and lozenges in burnt headers. Well head octagonal with pierced trefoiled lights containing a pump with date. Frieze with text from Proverbs below pointed roof. INTERIOR of typical house has narrow larder in line with front door and larger principal room with inscription on fireplace lintel. Bedroom undecorated. At rear, kitchen out-shut projects into house yard, free standing WC set away from back door in yard. The original arrangement of the rear of the houses now obscured in some units due to C20 rebuilding and addition encroaching and virtually filling some of the yards.
Listing NGR: TQ5715193611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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