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54 and 56, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Maldon, Essex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7312 / 51°43'52"N

Longitude: 0.6779 / 0°40'40"E

OS Eastings: 585027

OS Northings: 207004

OS Grid: TL850070

Mapcode National: GBR QM4.J6R

Mapcode Global: VHJK5.PRR7

Plus Code: 9F32PMJH+F5

Entry Name: 54 and 56, High Street

Listing Date: 2 October 1951

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256871

English Heritage Legacy ID: 464461

ID on this website: 101256871

Location: Maldon, Essex, CM9

County: Essex

District: Maldon

Civil Parish: Maldon

Built-Up Area: Maldon

Traditional County: Essex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex

Church of England Parish: Maldon All Saints with St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford

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Description



MALDON

TL8507SW HIGH STREET
574-1/7/84 (South side)
02/10/51 Nos.54 AND 56

GV II

Shops with flat. Mid C18. Flemish-bond brick with red
stretchers and blue/grey headers and large M-profile hipped
plain tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic; 9-window range; with large C20
rear shop extensions. Large stack in central valley and L-plan
stacks on each flank. 4 segmental-headed dormers with moulded
eaves; 2 with small-paned sashes and 2 with casements. Wide
overhanging dentilled eaves cornice returning around east
flank, which was exposed to view when newly built. Upper 2
floors each have windows with flush 12-pane sashes and with
rubbed brick flat arches with scalloped wavy soffits; the
centre window on each floor has simpler scallop pattern.
String band between storeys. No.54 has C20 shop front in
hardwood with 8 pilasters; 2 small-paned windows and 2 double
doors. No.56 has C20 bank frontage with red-brick pilasters,
fascia and dentilled cornice with terracotta ornament; 3
hardwood windows and wide entrance with folding hardwood
screen.
The east flank has 2 segmental-headed dormers; the west flank
has 2 dormers with hipped roofs. The rear elevation is partly
obscured by later extensions and has 4 hipped dormer windows.
The 2nd floor has 8 small-paned sash windows with segmental
heads, one is now a fire escape (metal attached to facade) and
3 boarded over at time of survey; 1st floor has 5 similar
windows, 4 boarded up.
INTERIOR: No.54 has a 1st-floor room of mid C18 panelling with
plaster cornice, now used as staff room. Original roof
structure of heavy timbers survives intact and one valley
purlin is reused late medieval with casement and bowtell
mouldings.
(RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 182:10).


Listing NGR: TL8502707004

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