Gents Farmhouse

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BRENTWOOD

TQ59NE HULLETTS LANE, Pilgrims Hatch 723-1/5/234 (East side) 20/02/76 Gents Farmhouse

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House. Mid-C16, c1600, C19, C20. Timber-frame, part exposed, part rendered, roofs peg-tiled. L-shaped plan of 2 blocks with rear linking stair tower and early out-shut to one unit and C20 addition. Exterior chimney-stack to each block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Front SW elevation. Rendered mostly with imitation timber-framing of large panels, end wall posts original. 3 window range, all windows except 2 are C20 casements with diamond leaded panes. Ground floor two 2-light windows with C20 timber-framed and rendered gabled porch in centre. Door C20 boarded stable type. First floor, three 2-light windows, end stacks seen to NW and SE. NW elevation exposed timber-framing with truncated stack to SW. Timber-framed lean-to to NE end with brick cladding of NE end wall. Ground floor, SW-NE single light casement, stack, 2 single light casements. Row of prominent large peg holes in studding below. Out-shut C20, boarded stable door. First floor, to NE of stack, mullioned window, one mullion old but inserted. C20 2-light casement. Rear NE elevation, 3 principal units, NW-SE range seen in front elevation, to NW, gable end of block of NW elevation with lean-to out-shut in front with C19 replacement of NE wall in brick. Stair tower in internal right angle, gabled roof, NW-SE axis. C20 brick flat roofed addition between stair tower and principal range. Windows, ground floor, NW-SE, C20 2-light casement in C19 segment headed window aperture. Stair tower, single light C20 casement and C20 door, upper glazing, 2x3 panes and 2 lower panels. First floor, principal range has mullioned window of 3 principal mullions of C17 lozenge section with flat centres and inner glazing rebates and minor mullions inbetween. Stair tower SE face has apertures of 2-light window with mullions missing. SE elevation. Rendered gable end of principal range, C17, central stack of small bricks in irregular bond. INTERIOR: 2 bayed block to N c1550, is earliest with blocked mullioned window in NE end wall on first floor. Flat laid joists with diminished haunched tenons, replaced by later joists in W bay - early C17, deep section, lamb's tongue stopped chamfers. At the same time S block of 2 bays constructed at right angles using joists with diminished haunches and pendant soffits with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. Corridor between blocks leading from new front entry to contemporary stair tower at rear. Doorways cut through early block to allow free movement. Stair tower has octagonal newel post and decorative finial and bearer rail to landing has lamb's tongue chamfer stops. S stack added at this time. Also N stack much rebuilt in C18/C19. The house is remarkably similar in its units and their date to nearby Hulletts (qv). Although the elements are put together somewhat differently in plan, both houses have a symmetrical elevation with contrived central front door and central passage to a stair tower.

Listing NGR: TQ5763196039

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