Description

MALDON

TL8506NE HIGH STREET
574-1/9/114 (South West side)
24/09/71 No.188
The Ship and Anchor Public House

GV II

Public house. C16 and possibly earlier. Timber-framed with
painted brick front; plain tile roof hipped with large gablet
to north-west and dropping to lower ridgeline to hipped return
on south-east; off-centre ridgeline stack. Complex plan form.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 4-window range. Modillioned
eaves. The 1st floor has 2 segmental-headed 6-pane sash
windows, one 2-light casement with central horizontal glazing
bars and a combined window under a wide segmental head with an
8-pane sash and small sash window. Ground floor has 2 early
C19 doorcases each with pilasters, recessed C19 doors, and
moulded flat hoods. 2 flat-roofed canted bay windows with sash
windows each with one vertical glazing bar. One pair of sashes
unsubdivided under a single arched head and a segmental-headed
entrance with C19 door with 6 panes in upper part.
Single-storey gabled C19 extension in red brick on south-east
flank with coupled sash, as adjoining window of main block and
painted front. North-west flank elevation has brick return and
wall of render over black weatherboarding. The return roof
slope here is of asbestos slates and a tall black
weatherboarded tower, with gabled plain tile roof, abutts west
corner.
The rear elevation has a C19 2-storeyed, red Flemish-bond
brickwork extension with pantiled roof, ridge stack and sash
window, as 1st floor with small panes and margin glazing.
Adjoining this is a C19 single-storey gabled extension of red
brick (partly painted) with Welsh slate roof. Rendered rear
stair tower of early C17 with gabled plain tile roof and
single-light casement to attic level. North-western cross-wing
has gable to rear and adjoining single-storey extension has
machine-made plain tile roof, red brick to north and white
weatherboarding to yard. Yard side has sash window with
central vertical glazing bar and C20 flat-roofed lobby
extension. C20 conservatory extension with gabled glazed roof.
INTERIOR: former open-hall house with C16 parlour cross-wing
surviving substantially intact at north-west end. This has
jowled posts, evidence for former parlour door in rear part of
partition (now removed) and former front jetty. Roof has crown
posts with thin longitudinal bracing and formerly hipped with
gablet to rear. Front had pair of ground-floor windows (jetty

bracket in central joist) and evidence for 1st-floor window on
north-west flank. Service-end cross-wing also survives and is
possibly earlier with deep cambered tie beam on front
elevation exposed inside. Hall range was rebuilt as 2 storeys
in early-mid C17 with long central spine beam and joggled
side-purlin roof with one purlin arched to form access to
attic from rear timber-framed stair tower. Some C17 doors.
(RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 177:16).

Listing NGR: TL8552006788

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548253

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