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INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING
TQ6499 HIGH STREET, Ingatestone
723-1/14/401 (South East side)
29/12/52 The Crown Inn
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
HIGH STREET, Ingatestone (South East side)
(The Crown Inn)
GV II
Public house. C15, altered in C19. Timber roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range facing NW with C16 axial stack in left bay, and 3-bay cross-wing to left. External stack to rear of right bay, enclosed by 2-storey lean-to, with C19 single-storey lean-to to rear.
C18/19 2-storey wing to left, completing an almost rectangular plan. External stack to left of rear bay of cross-wing, and single-storey bay of cross-wing, and single-storey lean-to in front of it.
2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes 6+6 lights, one of 8+8 lights, and reproduction sash of 10+10 lights. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 6+6 lights. Early C19 flush 6-panel door and plain overlight in simple doorcase, and one C20 half-glazed door. The stack has an ovolo-moulded brick cornice, and is partly cement-rendered. Roofed as a continuous main range over the lower cross-wing, with 3 gables to the rear. The rear elevation of the middle rear wing is of painted brick to first-floor level, plastered timber-framing above, with one C19 casement. The rear elevation of the cross-wing is jetted, with painted brick below.
INTERIOR: the main stack has a large wood-burning hearth with
0.33m jambs facing to right, and a smaller hearth facing to left. To the rear of it is an original doorway with chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch. The main range has chamfered axial beams, joists plastered to the soffits, an inserted post ~ supporting them, and much reused timber used as decor. The t cross-wing has exposed heavy plain joists of near-square] section jointed to an unchamfered binding beam. This building j is shown in elevation in a map of 1601 by the John Walker, J father and son, as of 2 storeys throughout, with a central door, 4 windows in each storey, 3 gables to the front (of which the middle is a feature gable, smaller than the others) and 2 internal stacks.
(Essex Record Office: D/DP: 8).
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373683
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