Toby House
TOBY HOUSE, 320, ROMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293200
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Toby House
- Statutory Address:
- TOBY HOUSE, 320, ROMAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293200
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Toby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOBY HOUSE, 320, ROMAN ROAD
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:
- TOBY HOUSE, 320, ROMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mountnessing
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 62686 97433
Details
MOUNTNESSING
TQ69NW ROMAN ROAD 723-1/6/470 (North West side) No.320 Toby House
II
House. Early C19, extended in C19. Gault and red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Rectangular plan facing SE, with an internal stack at the left side, and external stacks at the right side and at rear left. A later C19 wing to rear centre, partly covering an original window, connects the house to a formerly separate stable range parallel with the axis, forming an H-plan; the stable range has been raised to 2 storeys. C20 single-storey lean-to extension in bay to left, enclosing the rear stack. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 pairs of French windows with marginal lights. First floor, 3 sashes with marginal lights. Central half-glazed door with coloured marginal lights; plaster doorcase comprising fluted pilasters and moulded cornice. A full-width tented canopy of zinc on cast-iron stanchions encloses the front door and French windows; many of the stanchions are broken. Low-pitched roof with wide overhanging eaves and paired brackets at front and both sides. The front elevation and the left elevation (facing the approach from London and Brentwood) are of gault bricks; at the right the gault facade projects slightly, and the remainder is of red brick. In the left elevation is a half-glazed door with marginal lights opening into a C20 conservatory (replacing an earlier conservatory), and one original sash of 8+8 lights on the ground floor, 2 on the first floor, all with segmental brick arches. The right elevation has on the ground floor 2 original round casements, and on the first floor one original sash of 6+6 lights with crown glass and one C20 casement. The right elevation of the rear wing is weatherboarded on the first floor only; it has on the ground floor one C19 casement and on the first floor one original sash of 8+8 lights with crown glass re-sited. The stable range has at the rear one original halved door, and C20 metal casements. INTERIOR: original stair of a straight flight and a quarter turn at the top, with moulded handrail and stick balusters. C20 grate in left ground-floor room. Original reeded fireplaces with paterae are reported in the right ground-floor room and upper rooms.
Listing NGR: TQ6268697433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373753
- 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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