Description

MALDON

TL8507SW HIGH STREET
574-1/7/90 (North East side)
02/10/51 Nos.69 AND 71

GV II*

Shop, C16 and early C17. Timber-framed and rendered with
gabled roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 3-bay range; and extensive
rear extensions. 2 large gabled bays flanking smaller gabled
bay with, behind the north-west pair, a taller roof parallel
to the street. The north-west gabled wing has moulded
barge-boards and a semicircular-headed C19 fixed window to
attic. The 1st floor has a C19 canted bay window with sashes
with central vertical glazing bar and felted hipped roof. On
the ground floor a C19 shop front with canted-out fascia, cant
sides, recessed cant-sided entrance of large panes, takes up
about half the frontage.
The central gable is smaller and has moulded barge-boards and
a C19 casement fixed-light window in 2 parts, above and below
the old tie beam. Ground floor has canted flat-roofed bay with
sashes with one vertical glazing bar.
The south-east gable has similar barge-boards and
semicircular-headed window to attic and is jettied on large
ornamental brackets. The 1st floor has a canted bay window
under jetty and sashes with 2 vertical glazing bars. The 1st
floor is also jettied on hewn posts with moulded bressumer and
2 projecting joist ends with mouldings. The ground floor has
wide carriage arch with heavy curved arch braces and C20
four-panel door in moulded frame with flight of 3 steps.
On the rear the carriage-arch block is gabled as is the
central wing which projects further towards the north.
Attached to the 1st floor of the south-east wing is a black
weatherboarded structure with slate lean-to roof and C19 sash
windows. Behind the central block are 2 lean-to roofed
structures, at right-angles to one another, of black
weatherboarding, one with slate and other with plain tiles. On
the rear of the north-west wing is a large C20 flat-roofed
extension and slate gable-roofed rendered extension on its
northern end.
INTERIOR: the central block is the older part and is a C16
cross-wing with arch-braced side-purlin roof, formerly jettied
to the front. The structure seems to incorporate much reused
timber. In the early C17 this was enveloped as part of a high
quality house with contemporary carriage arch. The north-west
wing had ovolo-frieze windows either side of an oriel (recent

renovation). The central wing has internal wall bracing and
was refitted with ovolo windows in C17 remaking. The
south-east wing has central A-frame truss, side-purlin roof
with straight wind braces and long straight internal wall
braces. The 1st-floor bay window structure incorporates ovolo
mullions from former oriel in this position. This wing also
had small ovolo-mullioned windows each side of the central
oriel. Inside these a C19 cast-iron Art Nouveau fireplace and
boarded C17 door.
A well preserved and unrestored example of a town house of the
period.
(RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 181:6).

Listing NGR: TL8515307029

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532240

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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