Description

MALDON

TL8507SW MARKET HILL
574-1/7/172 (South East side)
02/10/51 No.34
The Old Custom House
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET HILL
(East side)
No.34)

GV II*

House, at one time the custom house. Late C16, early C18 and
early C19. Timber-framed and rendered with front of grey/blue
header brick with red brick dressings; plain tile roofs and
front range roof hips up to taller rear range; tall stack
through front half of roof and T-shape rendered stack at
south-east end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 5-window range. 2 gabled
dormers, each with a 2-light casement of horizontal panes.
Parapet with 4 wide and one narrow sunk rectangular panels.
The 1st floor has a central, narrow flush sash window with
segmental head and 2 wider similar windows either side, all
with plain sashes. The ground floor has a central doorcase
with fluted Doric pilasters, flat hood and 6-panel door with 2
glazed panels over 4 raised-and-fielded panels. 4 stone steps
and wrought-iron handrails. Each side there are 2 similar sash
windows, and the tall plinth is rendered.
The rear elevation has 2 projecting wings. To the south-east
is a tall, rendered early C19 block with steep, gambrel roof.
This has a 16-pane sash in gable and a small pane tripartite
sash to the 1st floor. The ground floor has a wide flat-roofed
bay window with small panes. To the north-east is a lower
rendered extension with gabled roof and rendered large stack
base near junction with roof of front range. This has a
16-pane sash in upper part of south-east elevation and plain
sash in exposed flank.
INTERIOR: the front range contains remains of a late C16
two-storey and unjettied timber-framed house, formerly with a
roof of wind-braced clasped-purlin type. The exposed
north-east wall has remains of diamond-mullioned windows to
attic, 1st and ground floors. In its rear wall is a
contemporary, or slightly later, stack with chamfered-arched
fireplace to the 1st floor.
The north-eastern rear extension range has a roof of A-frame
type with high mounted collars, and many-pegged curved braces
between principals and collar (identical to roofs of No.4

Silver Street (qv)).
At the south-west end of front range, the base of a late C16
stack is exposed in the attic, with 2 octagonal shafts with
moulded bases. In the early C18 the roof was raised, with
reused material.
The inside face of the front wall has original early C18
detail with cornice breaking forward over windows in
north-east room. The central entrance hall has early C19
panelling and dogleg staircase with barleysugar balusters
(some renewed), and arched openings on 1st-floor landing with
moulded capitals and pilasters. South-west front room is of
C18 pine panelling.
Early C19 rear wing has contemporary fireplaces on ground and
1st floor and 1st-floor room has window with vertical sliding
shutters. The ground-floor bay window has reeded pilasters on
its flanks.

Listing NGR: TL8505507274

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532194

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