Description

MALDON

TL80NW WYCKE HILL, Little Maldon
574-1/1/277 (North West side)
24/09/71 Maldon Hall and Mallards
(Formerly Listed as:
Maldon Hall)

GV II

Large house, and small dwelling in former service
accommodation. c1500, C18 and early C19. Part timber-framed,
part red Flemish-bond brick and painted brick; roofs of plain
tiles and Welsh slate; Gault brick stacks. Very complex
structure of many builds. Moated site.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with small cellar. On the south-east
corner is a rectangular painted-brick block with slate hipped
roof with lead hips and ridge detail. This has an off-centre
Gault brick ridgeline stack and cast-iron verandah with glass
roof and ornamental posts, on its south face which continues
across the adjoining block. The east elevation of this
structure has three 16-pane sash windows on the 1st floor, all
with painted flat-arched heads. The ground floor has 3
similar, deeper windows.
The south elevation has 2 blind window recesses on 1st floor
and a door to ground floor. Adjoining to the west is the short
end face of a long north/south range, being the earlier core
of the house. The south face has a hipped slate roof behind a
plain parapet, and a flat dormer with 8-pane, sash window. The
1st floor has a wide blind recess, in centre and 12-pane sash
window. The ground floor has a 16-pane sash with sill near the
floor behind a continuation of the verandah, the floor of
which is of coloured tiles.
The western elevation of this range is clad in red
Flemish-bond brick and has a slight break one-third distance
from the south-west corner. The long roof is hipped at both
ends and is clad in plain tiles and has a large Gault brick
stack, off-centre on its ridge. The 1st floor has one
small-paned tripartite sash window, two 12-pane sashes, an
8-pane sash, a large 16-pane sash and a small window with
cross-glazing pattern, most with rubbed brick arched heads;
mid-wall there is a tall staircase window with 8 panes and a
curious double-curved rubbed brick arch. The ground floor has
a sash with central vertical glazing bar, a small-paned French
window with side lights, a small plain sash, a 9-pane sash and
an arched cellar opening.
Linked to the northern end of this range is a small
rectangular red brick building with hipped plain tile roof

(part of Mallards). This former outbuilding has a wide lean-to
dormer with two C20 windows on west side and a single lean-to
dormer on east, with slate roofs. The south flank wall has a
tall stack and there is a C20 conservatory against west wall.
The rear (east) of this building is linked to a former
cross-wing at the end of the main core block. The west
elevation of this has a truncated roof in slate, rendered
walls and a small-paned tripartite sash on the 1st floor. The
ground floor is fronted by a stone-flagged yard, partly
contained by a wall and has a kitchen door with hood on
consoles and C19 cast-iron wall-mounted ?pump. Slate-roofed
gabled extension and with a further single-storey red brick
extension with plain tile gabled roof to north.
INTERIOR: the long north/south range is an in-line 2-storeyed
timber-framed house of the late C15 or early C16. Remnants of
a crown-post roof survive, with 3 simple crown posts with
lateral braces, under a late side-purlin roof. One truss of
this was that formerly over the upper chamber. The posts are
jowled with flat chamfered bridging joists and spine beams,
and one partition is partly exposed with a flat chamfered
doorway.
At the north end a very large jowled post is exposed, probably
part of the earlier cross-wing. This has, in part, a C17 floor
with substantial bridging joist and mantel-beamed fireplace of
remarkable width, now partially infilled. An adjoining kitchen
in the early C19 western range has a wide contemporary
fireplace with large keystone and wall shelving.
Interior generally very complete with numerous early C19
features including doors, architraves and cornices. The
south-west room has simple panelling and there are reeded
arches on ground- and 1st-floor hallways. Windows to south
elevation have internal folding shutters

Listing NGR: TL8382606226

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547823

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)