Description

DODDINGHURST

TQ69NW MOUNTNESSING LANE 723-1/6/325 (South side) 20/02/76 Shops Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD PETTITS LANE, Doddinghurst Shop Farmhouse)

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House. Late C17 and C20. Timber-framed and rendered (C20) with large moulded motifs. Roof C20 peg tiles. Rectangular plan. 4 window range, all windows C20 wooden diamond latticed casements. Stack off-centre to E, grey red brick, 2 attached shafts, minor stack to W against gable enclosed by C20 lean-to addition. Door off-centre to W, boarded, in simple gabled porch. INTERIOR: 3 rooms all with deep sectioned ceiling joists with diminished haunched tenons and pendant soffits. Principal stack has 2 back-to-back fireplaces both with timber lintels (considerably rebuilt). First floor, primary bracing of wall framing, bladed scarf in wall plate and mullioned window in E gable with 3 mullions still extant but no shutter groove. Evidence of original position of front door not clear but probably lobby entrance. Rear similar to front, rendered with 4 window range. C19 bake oven projects from E end gable roofed with a small stack.

Listing NGR: TQ6021398334

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491750

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)