Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY FURNACE LANE

6/79 Wrangling Green

II

House. Circa late C16/early C17 with a slightly later rear wing. Framed
construction on a sandstone rubble base, the front elevation and rear wing
weatherboarded, the right return tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.

Plan: West facing. The main block is a 3 room lobby entrance plan house, the
2 left hand rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, the
inner (south) room unheated. The main block has an outshut containing a
straight stair, probably C18. Rear left (north east) wing at right angles
with an end stack is probably an C18 kitchen addition. The partition between
the 2 south rooms in the main block has been removed. The present entrance is
on the north return, into the wing.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Main block roof gabled at the left end, half-hipped at
the right end; axial stack with a staggered shaft. Asymmetrical 4-window
front with 2- and 3-light C20 casements with diamond leaded panes. Similar
fenestration to the wing. The rear elevation has a catslide roof over the
outshut and a gabled dormer. Gabled, weatherboarded C20 porch on the left
return.

Interior: Well-preserved. Exposed carpentry to the ground floor rooms
including chamfered crossbeams. The hall fireplace has a moulded timber
lintel. Wall-framing complete with flared jowls to the wall posts.

Roof: Tie-beam, clasped purlin and queen strut design, re-roofed in the C20
over the north end room of the main range. Roof of wing not seen at time of
survey.

Listing NGR: TQ6972741820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541659

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)