Description

MALDON

TL8407SE LONDON ROAD
574-1/6/141 (South West side)
24/09/71 Nos.13 AND 15
(Formerly Listed as:
LONDON ROAD
(South side)
Nos.13-17 (Odd))

GV II

Three identical houses, now 2 dwellings, C15 with C17
alterations and C20 extensions. Timber-framed and rendered,
with C20 pargeting and gabled continuous plain tile roof with
L-shaped stack to south-east end and ridgeline stack near
north-west end.
EXTERIOR: one storey and attic; 4-window range; with C20
lean-to extension to No.13 and flat-roofed extension to No.15.
3 gabled dormers, each with a 2-light casement with central
horizontal glazing bar. 2 small plate-glass windows beneath
eaves. Ground floor has 2 entrance doors and 4 sash windows
with moulded surrounds and 2 vertical glazing bars, also one
small plate-glass window as above. Further stack on rear and
2-light casement in gable on north-west flank.
INTERIOR: good timber-framing of C15 with jowled posts and
remmants of simple crown-post roof. This provided 3 identical
houses, each with an open hall and one service room, all of
one storey only. Each cross wall had curved wall braces down
from post jowls to a central stud, and some bracing survives.
In the early C17 an inglenook stack with timber mantel beam
and a floor with large stop-chamfered bridging joist and spine
beams were inserted into No.15. No.13 had a floor inserted, of
differing design, with broad central tenoned joists into a
bridging joist, but with lambs-tongue stops (reused?). At this
time a stack was added to this, south-east, end.
The north-west end of the terrace has been truncated, but a
reused rafter at this end has a secret notched lap mortice of
the C13 or C14.
HISTORY: probably a speculative development. The offsetting of
braces to allow for a door is a detail also used in the
Vicarage of the Church of All Saints, Church Walk (qv). The 3
cottages are probably part of the holdings of Wentworth
Charity (1634).
(Whites Directories: Whites Directory of Essex: 1848-).

Listing NGR: TL8473307026

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548072

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