Description

CLACTON-ON-SEA OLD ROAD
TM 1716
GREAT CLACTON
(west side)
13/22 No. 383
SII
House. Circa 1679 with c.1840 facade and alterations. Timber framed, painted
brick facade, weatherboarded returns. Grey slate roof. Right and left red
brick chimney stacks. End pilasters. 2 storeys. 3 window range of small paned
vertically sliding sashes. Central doorway, moulded capitals and bases to
pilasters, frieze, flat canopy over. To left a C19 single storey extension with
a vertically boarded door and matching window used as a trap shed at one time
with stable and workshop forward left. This range with vertically boarded doors
and large window with 9 mullions, the glass of overlapping small panes. The
timber ridge louvre with finial and on its north face a carved greyhound from
the prow of the ship Greyhound, sunk off Clacton 1884. Former occupiers were
involved in smuggling and a raid by Customs and Excise men c.1832 is recorded.
Various articles in local newspapers and Essex Countryside.

Listing NGR: TM1759616329

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603498

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)