Heatley Cottage

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BRENTWOOD

TQ69SW WORRIN ROAD, Shenfield 723-1/9/281 (North East side) 20/02/76 Heatley Cottage (Formerly Listed as: WARRIN ROAD, Shenfield Heatley Cottage)

GV II

House. c1600, altered 1953-5. Timber-framed, framing exposed, with C20 brick nogging and plaster infill, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 4 bays aligned NE-SW (main elevation to NW), original external stack to rear of second bay from left end, and 2-storey corridor extension along remainder of rear. Wing to rear of stack, and C20 single-storey lean-to extension in rear left angle. C17 external stack at right end, and small single-storey lean-to extension to rear of it. 2 storeys and cellar. 5 C20 casements on each floor, some in early C17 style, with leaded diamond panes. C20 door in gabled porch in right gable end in Tudor Revival style. C20 brick nogging in ground floor front, the remainder plastered between the framing, some of which is introduced. The rear elevation of the rear wing has 2 carved timbers, introduced. C19/20 cruciform shafts on main stack, C20 grouped diagonal shafts on right stack. C20 carved bargeboards. INTERIOR: the plan comprises a central room of 2 unequal bays, and a single-bay room at each end, on both floors, all with original entrances from the rear. The central ground-floor room has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. 2 high windows have ovolo-moulded mullions and surrounds, and diamond saddle bars, mainly C19 imitation, introduced 1953-5 from another building; one mullion is C17. Original central doorway in left end with introduced or altered C17 head. Fireplace with depressed arch in the longer (left) bay; some traces of original pink paint on the bricks above. The left ground-floor room has a similar beam, joists and window; some original wattle and daub infill in rear wall, and original doorway with chamfered jambs and straight head to rear, to cellar below. The right ground-floor room has a similar beam and window, and a hearth with rear splays and rebuilt depressed arch. On the upper floor there is an original doorway with straight head near the front corner of the middle room, and a face-halved and bladed scarf in the wallplate near it. Originally these rooms were open to the roof; the intermediate truss of the central room is framed without a tie-beam; this room has a chamfered axial beam with hollow-moulded jambs and depressed arch, altered. The right first-floor room has a fireplace with chamfered jambs and depressed arch, altered; pegging for studs indicates that originally this room was unheated. Clasped purlin roof of heavy construction, the rear pitch raised to cover the rear corridor; some reused rafters from a medieval hall house. Numerous features from other buildings, particularly at the rear, were introduced in the course of a major renovation 1953-5. These confuse interpretation of the original structure. 6 original chamfered doorways with straight heads in the rear elevation, with carpenters' assembly marks, opening into the 3 main rooms on each floor, indicate that formerly there was another building to the rear which has since been demolished, and replaced by the present rear extensions. (Scott D: Historic Buildings in Essex: 1985-: 1, 22-3).

Listing NGR: TQ6063194869

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Sources

Books and journals
Historic Buildings in Essex in Historic Buildings in Essex, Vol. 1, (1985), 22-23

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