Description

MALDON

TL8407SE LONDON ROAD
574-1/6/133 (North East side)
02/10/51 No.2
with raised forecourt & boundary
walls

GV II*

House, now offices. Mid to late C18. Red/brown Flemish-bond
brick with rubbed brick arches, stucco ornament and cornice of
eroded limestone. Square plan, plain tile roof of gambrel
profile and flat top. Square plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics. The main Gate Street front of
2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Plain
parapet, modillioned stone cornice and 3 segmental-headed
dormers, each with a 6-pane sash window. 2 rectangular
projections, each with a tripartite plain sash window with
stuccoed keystone at 1st-floor level; the ground floors of
each projection have similar windows, but recessed beneath a
semicircular arch and with large fleshy honeysuckle motif in
painted stucco; painted stucco impost band. The recessed
centre has a narrow plain sash window with keystone over an
open-pedimented Doric doorcase with triglyphs over pilasters;
plain semicircular fanlight and recessed door with 4
raised-and-fielded panels over 2 flush panels.
The north-west garden front is similar, but dormers have
casements and windows have small panes. In place of the ground
floor tripartites are small-paned Venetian windows and
central, deeply recessed door has rectangular fanlight of
Gothick-style intersecting glazing bars.
The London Road front has 2 tall stacks behind parapet and
broad projecting centre with, on the 1st floor, 3 small-paned
sash windows flanked by blind recesses; the ground floor is
similar but with central open-pedimented doorcase with
recessed narrow door of 3 flush panels in panelled reveals.
The north-east front has 2 projecting stacks (one truncated)
and a small-paned sash window on 1st floor.
INTERIOR: central hall is gained from Gate Street and this has
semicircular rear arch with keystone and moulded capitals.
Dogleg staircase, to the left, is the most elaborate of its
type in Maldon; column-on-vase balusters, column newel and
hardwood handrail and with fretwork shaped tread ends; a
string band beneath tread ends has fretwork frieze with
quatrefoils and interlace. An archway to the Gate Street door
is framed in similar fretwork with lattice pilasters and
ornamental keystone. All ground-floor rooms have plaster

cornices and original doors and architraves. 2 front rooms
have marble fireplaces and a rear room has an eared
architraved fireplace. A similar fireplace in the 1st-floor
south-east room and semicircular arch on the upper-floor
landing. Service staircase with crossed balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: raised forecourt to Gate Street frontage,
curved into London Road, with red-brick retaining wall and
stone coping with remnants of former chain railings. 2 flights
of stone steps to main door substantially repaired. High
red-brick garden wall to London Road, linked to lower wall in
front of house and wrought-iron railing to flank entrance.

Listing NGR: TL8478207028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532206

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