Ginge Petre Almshouses Ginge Petre Chapel
GINGE PETRE ALMSHOUSES, 5-8, ROMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207767
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Ginge Petre Almshouses Ginge Petre Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- GINGE PETRE ALMSHOUSES, 5-8, ROMAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207767
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ginge Petre Almshouses Ginge Petre Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GINGE PETRE ALMSHOUSES, 5-8, ROMAN ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- GINGE PETRE CHAPEL, ROMAN ROAD
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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:
- GINGE PETRE ALMSHOUSES, 5-8, ROMAN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- GINGE PETRE CHAPEL, ROMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ingatestone and Fryerning
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 64758 99252
Details
INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING TQ 6499 723-1/14/411 20/02/76 ROMAN ROAD, Ingatestone (South East Side) Nos 5-8 (consec) Ginge Petre Almshouses and Chapel (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD, ROMAN ROAD Ingatestone Ginge Petre Almshouses) GV II
Terrace of almshouses and Roman Catholic chapel. 1840. Renovated in 1978 by Trehearne and Norman Preston. Red birck with black headers in diaper patterns and, dressings of gault brick, roofed with fishscale slates. One terrace of 4 almshouses facing NW, with chapel in centre, forming the rear of a quadrangle enclosed in 2 sides by other terrances. Tudor Revival Style. Single storey. Nos 5 and 8 (at the ends) each have 2 original cast-iron latticed casement windows, with chamfered jambs and segmental arches, and a central boarded door with verical moulded fillets, and chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch of gault brick. Nos 6 & 7 are sunukarm but each have only one window. Dogtooth eaves course. The black headers are glazed. Diagonal chimney shafts of red and black bricks in 1-2-2-1 arrangements. Ridge tiles of red clay. The gables have copings and kneelers of gault brick. The left gable end has 3 buttresses of red brick, covering the diaper pattern. The right gable end is not buttressed with a diaper pattern all over, but a small area is repaired with Flettons. The diaper pattern continues on the original reat elevation. The rear windows are C20 casements. The chapel had a gable wall standing one brick forward of the remainder of the front elevation, with 2 smaller windows in similar style, a similar central door, and a corbelled bell-turret without a bell. INTERIOR: Retangular and plain, with a coved ceiling, a central panel outlined by plaster mouldings, and 2 plaster roses in the middle;the larger, upper rose is whitem the smaller lower rose is painted red. Rear extensions of red brick with slate roofs to Nos 6 and 7 meet beind the chapel.
Listing NGR: TQ6475899252
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373696
- 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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