Description

MALDON

TL8407SE HIGH STREET
574-1/6/65 (South side)
02/10/51 No.22
Stonecroft
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
No.22
Stonecroft Galleries)

GV II

House, now office. C18 and C19. Timber-framed and rendered
with slate half-hipped gambrel roof and stack on west flank.
L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellar; 5-window range. 3
flat-roofed dormers, each with 2-light horizontal-sliding
casements with central horizontal glazing bar. 1st floor has 5
flush sash windows with moulded surrounds and some old glass.
The centre window is deeper and has a shouldered surround with
triple keystone and moulded sill with consoles. Ground floor
has central doorcase with dentilled cornice, pulvinated
frieze, fluted Doric pilasters, triple keystone and rusticated
wall surface. Either side there is a flat-roofed segmental bow
window with small-paned sashes and thin fluted half-columns.
Door has one horizontal panel over 2 raised-and-fielded panels
and 2 lower flush panels. Wrought-iron handrails and 2 stone
steps.
Block at right-angles at rear has half-hipped plain tile roof
and 2-light horizontal-sliding casement with cross glazing
pattern to attic. 1st floor has a sash window with 6 panes in
upper sash and single vertical glazing bar in lower sash.
Ground floor has C20 glazed door and side light. 2-storey C19
rear extension in brick with plain tile roof and 2 gabled
oriel windows on 1st floor.
INTERIOR: 3-unit plan, the centre with open-well staircase
with carved tread ends and column-on-vase balusters. From 1st
floor to attic the stairs are similar but with shaped tread
ends. Walls up to dado level and beneath stairs have
raised-and-fielded panelling, and on flank of stairs this is
framed between Doric pilasters. 1st-floor east room is fully
panelled and has plaster cornice. Other rooms have
contemporary doors and architraves and simple plaster
cornices. The windows to the western 1st-floor room have
internal folding shutters. Door on ground floor of C17
panelling with original ironmongery and fluted frieze over.

Listing NGR: TL8487807028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548360

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings