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BRENTWOOD

TQ5993 SEVEN ARCHES ROAD 723-1/12/104 (West side) 20/02/76 No.14 Pond House (Formerly Listed as: SEVEN ARCHES ROAD No.14 Newmans)

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House. Early C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Rectangular plan facing E, with a stack in each gable wall, and an original catslide to the rear, with a stack at the left end of it. C20 conservatory to left. Ground floor, 2 sashes of 2+2 lights in original apertures with flat arches of gauged brick. First floor, 2 similar sashes without flat arches. Central door with 4 boarded flush panels and 3 fretted lights at top; moulded flat canopy on profiled brackets. Symmetrical elevation. Modillioned eaves cornice. A brick to left of the front door is inscribed `Wm. - 1823', with a stone in the position of the missing initial, possibly intended to mean William Stone. In each gable end a line of black headers follows the front pitch of the roof, and the equivalent pitch at the rear. All re-pointed with lime mortar c1986. INTERIOR: each ground-floor front room has a chamfered axial beam of pine. Both ground-floor front windows have double sash shutters, which are rare survivals. The left room has a plain white marble fireplace, the right has a fireplace of black and green marble, and a Victorian cast-iron grate. Original stair, some stick balusters missing from lower flight. All internal doors are 4-panel, except at the rear of the first-floor right front room, which has a pair of 3-panel pine doors with a draw-bar, formerly overlooking a lower room to the rear (now a corridor), a rare feature.

Listing NGR: TQ5996593396

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• Wikidata Q26491722

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