The Crown Inn
THE CROWN INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279649
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Crown Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROWN INN, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279649
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Crown Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CROWN INN, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE CROWN INN, HIGH STREET
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 64901 99447
Details
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).
Listing NGR: TQ6490199447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373683
- 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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