Post Office

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BRENTWOOD

TQ5890 WARLEY ROAD, Great Warley 723-1/17/152 (North side) 21/10/58 No.12 Post Office

GV II

House, with post office. c1500, C19. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled roof. Central one and a half storey range and two 2-storeyed end cross-wings, later timber-framed rear extension to E cross-wing restored in C19. Front, S elevation, facade re-furbished - said to be in 1850 - decorative barge boards with finials to gables, door hoods and dormer windows, E cross-wing jettied but W cross-wing under-built in brick, central stack in front of roof apex and 2 flanking end stacks considerably re-built. Windows principally sashes with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. Ground floor, E-W, sash window under jetty, doorway with gabled hood, door with upper glazing, glazing bars, 4x4 panes (central 4 with narrow outer borders), C19 oriel window on brackets, peg-tiled lean-to hood, 4 lights and 2 side lights with upper frieze lights, sash window, gable hooded doorway, door with beaded boards, sash window in W cross-wing. First floor, E-W, cross-wing sash window, 2 gabled dormer windows in central range with 2-light casement windows with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, cross-wing sash window. Rear, N elevation reflects front units. Ground floor weatherboarded, first floor rendered. Late timber-framed extension to E cross-wing projects with C19 refacing, brick, upper rendered. Windows irregular. Ground floor, W-E, C20 casement, 2 lights, glazing bars, 2x3 panes, C19 boarded door, C20 2-light window, C19 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, C19 boarded door. First floor, W-E, C19 2-light casement window, glazing bars, 2x2 panes, C19 gabled dormer window (as on front elevation), C19 2-light casement, one light with glazing bars, 2x3 panes, the other light single C20 transom bar. W elevation of C19 addition - two C19 casement windows, one 2-light, one single light. Central range ground floor has C20 metal framed lean-to conservatory. W end elevation, ground floor weatherboarded, first floor plastered, external stack of 2 builds, central vertical joint, earlier phase C18. E end elevation, timber-framed, jettied block with C19 external stack, C19 casement window on both ground and first floor, both with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. C19 rear unit, ground floor brick with casement window, first floor rendered with C19 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. INTERIOR: ground floor cross-passage with opposed doorways retained in post-medieval refurbishment. Hall area above with central truss, tie-beam with arched braces to un-jowled posts, members chamfered with elegant triangular chamfer stops, crown-post with expanded head supporting collar purlin and broach stops to internal angles formed each side of fillet moulding on each square face. Recess in front wall plate denoting position of hall window, roof above central collar purlin partly cut away, timbers heavily sooted. W, `high' end cross-wing of 2 bays with central truss, foot of crown post expanded and arched braces to tie-beam. Window shutter rebate at front ground floor. E `low' end cross-wing has central truss of 2-bayed unit with un-jowled posts and arched braces to tie-beam, corner posts jowled. Roof was of crown post form, now replaced by one in softwood, of side purlin type. Common ceiling joists of ground floor are flat laid with centre tenons to binding joist. The E flanking stack rebuilt internally and was probably of C17 origin - the central stack to the hall, probably of same date - constructed to avoid the central crown post and now completely boxed in by later work. The bridging joist of the inserted attic floor is chamfered with lamb's tongue chamfer stops of c1600. The W stack of unknown origin as a C20 brick wall now built on ground floor across fire place position. The Post Office forms a group with other buildings around the green. (RCHM: Central and SE Essex : Monument 5: 62).

Listing NGR: TQ5828390657

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An Inventory of Essex South East, (1923), 62

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