Mitre House Brentwood School

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BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 SHENFIELD ROAD 723-1/12/107 (South East side) 21/10/58 Mitre House, Brentwood School (Formerly Listed as: SHENFIELD ROAD, Shenfield (South side) Mitre House, Brentwood School)

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Formerly known as: Mitre House, Brentwood School ROMAN ROAD. House, now 2 flats. C15, altered in C17 and C19. Timber-framed, plastered with exposed false framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay cross-wing to left, with C17 external stack to left, and wing to rear, 1883. 5-bay cross-wing range to right, extending to rear, with (originally) external stack to right, now enclosed by later extension. C17 stair-tower in rear angle between hall range and right wing. C17 single-storey extension to rear of right wing, with axial stack at the junction. 2 storeys and cellar. Ground floor, 2 tripartite sashes of 2+2, 6+6, and 2+2 lights, and one of 4+5, 6+6 and 4+4 lights. First floor, 4 early C19 sashes of 6+6 lights. C18/early C19 door with 15 handmade bulls-eye lights, moulded flat canopy on brackets. To right of door, large wrought-iron bootscraper comprising a stand of inverted U-shape and a plate with pointed ends. The roof of the main range has been raised about one metre and rebuilt as a double range, of which the front (and wider span) range extends over the cross-wings, abutting on the left stack and enclosing the right stack; the cross-wing roofs rise above it as small hips. All stacks rendered; the hall stack has grouped diagonal shafts, partly enclosed by the raised roof. INTERIOR: the hall range has on the ground floor a wide wood-burning hearth, blocked and plastered over, and to rear of it an early C19 semi-elliptical wooden arch. C16 inserted floor has a chamfered axial beam, joists plastered to the soffits. The roof is of late C17 construction without a ridge. The left cross-wing has a chamfered axial beam, joists plastered to the soffits. The left cross-wing has a chamfered binding beam, joists plastered to the soffits, close studding with `Suffolk' bracing where exposed, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing, altered at front and back to hips in the C18. The upper room has a late C17 bolection-moulded fireplace, blocked, and C18 moulded ceiling cornices. The right cross-wing has in the front ground-floor room some late C16 oak panelling, painted, a blocked hearth, and an original rear doorway with hollow-moulded jambs and 4-centred arch, with a late C17 panelled door. Other doors to the rear and on the first floor. Exposed close studding in some partition walls, with `Suffolk' bracing. On the first floor is an original doorway similar to that on the ground floor, but plain chamfered, blocked, and an early C18 borrowed light with ovolo-moulded glazing bars. Crownpost roof with axial bracing, altered to a hip at the front. The stair tower has a C17/18 window with wrought-iron casement and rectangular leading, and an early C19 stair with turned newels, stick balusters and moulded pine handrail.

Listing NGR: TQ5981193918

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