PARK HOUSE

PARK HOUSE, 259, BRENTWOOD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205615
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE, 259, BRENTWOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205615
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PARK HOUSE, 259, BRENTWOOD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE, 259, BRENTWOOD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Herongate and Ingrave
National Grid Reference:: TQ 63126 90772

Details

BRENTWOOD

TQ69SW BRENTWOOD ROAD, Herongate 723-1/9/178 (South West side) 20/02/76 No.259 Park House

II

House. C18, altered and extended in early C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Double-pile plan facing E, with 2 internal stacks symmetrically arranged. Large early C20 extension to rear, in Georgian style. Small C20 single-storey extension to right of front range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics. The E front was originally symmetrical; a square single-storey bay now stands forward to left of the central door, and a C20 moulded flat canopy covers it and the door, supported on one square pier. Ground floor, 2 tripartite sashes of 2+3, 6+9 and 2+3 lights, with Gothic tracery in the upper lights, of pine. The window to right of the door has a segmental-flat arch of gauged brick narrower than the window aperture. First floor, 3 sashes of 8+8 lights in late Georgian style with segmental-flat arches of gauged brick. 2 casements in flat-roofed dormers. Simple cornice and parapet extending along both side elevations; hipped roof. The right elevation has on the first floor one original blank recess and one similar sash, both with segmental brick arches, and one smaller C20 sash. The left (garden) elevation has an early C20 splayed bay with French windows, overlight with Gothic tracery, 2 similar sashes to those at front, and flat roof; on the first floor 2 sashes of 8+8 lights in late Georgian style with segmental brick arches. INTERIOR: C20 stair, and large aperture from entrance-hall into right front room, which has a moulded egg-and-dart plaster ceiling cornice and an early C20 stone fireplace. The left front room has a 6-panel moulded door and C18 wooden eared fireplace with husk, faces and egg-and-dart mouldings, and a cast-iron ducknest grate with low-relief ornament of c1800, a fine example of its period. Other internal doors are 6-panel. All first-floor hearths blocked.

Listing NGR: TQ6312690772

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.