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Latitude: 51.8715 / 51°52'17"N
Longitude: 0.3639 / 0°21'49"E
OS Eastings: 562836
OS Northings: 221851
OS Grid: TL628218
Mapcode National: GBR NGB.NTH
Mapcode Global: VHJJF.8775
Plus Code: 9F32V9C7+HH
Entry Name: Electricity Showrooms
Listing Date: 16 February 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1142478
English Heritage Legacy ID: 353292
ID on this website: 101142478
Location: Great Dunmow, Uttlesford, Essex, CM6
County: Essex
District: Uttlesford
Civil Parish: Great Dunmow
Built-Up Area: Great Dunmow
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Great Dunmow St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (E side)
8/45 39, 41 Electricity
Showrooms
GV II
Shop and offices, former house, C16 and later, timber framed and plastered of
2 storeys with attics. Low pitched early C19, slate gabled roof with raised
ridge line towards S end. Front has 6, C19 d.h.s. without g.b.'s on first
floor, over a carriage arch, a C19 small shopwindow and a wide C20 shopfront.
Off-centre very large red brick stack with 4 angled shafts, rebuilt to old
design in C19. At N end C17 peg tile roofed gabled block. The interior reveals
2 floored bays and crosswing of the mid C16 and later extension- bays of C18 or
C19 at N and S ends. That to the N forms the carriage arch. The roof is
complete beneath the later early C19 slate covering and has 2 crown post bays
with curiously only the collar purlin and braces, soot blackened. Lime washed,
covered C17 wall paintings in roof space. early C16 stack rises through
buildings with exposed, flat-arched opening with cant-sided interior, 2 orders
of chamfering and very low stops to former hall. Early C18 doors, and cupboards
in upper floor and 2 curious stubby, spiral timber columns support roof over
later stair tower on first floor. Likely to be c.1500 open hall with slightly
later brick stack, rebuilt to provide 2 storeys in late C16 with earlier
fragments incorporated.
Listing NGR: TL6283621851
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