Details
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)
GV II
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