Description

MALDON

TL8506NW HIGH STREET
574-1/9/106 (North East side)
24/09/71 Nos.123 AND 125

GV II

House, now shop. Early C19 and earlier origins, with later
rear extensions. Timber-framed with front of red Flemish-bond
brick and plain tile roof, continous with No.121 (qv);
ridgeline stacks over flank walls.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Plain low parapet. 1st
floor has a 16-pane sash window either side of a 12-pane sash,
all with painted segmental arches. Ground floor has central
Doric porch, with unfluted columns without entasis but with
moulded stone bases and frieze of linear interlace; the door
has a glazed panel over 2 moulded panels and the reeded
architrave once enclosed a semicircular fanlight, obscured by
the porch; one cast-iron boot scraper adjoining the eastern
column. No.123 has a canted bay window with plate glass and a
moulded cornice. No.125 has an early C20 shop front with
fascia, blind box, one large glass pane and recessed glazed
door.
No.125 has a 2-storeyed right-angled extension to the rear and
then 2 further two-storeyed extensions, one with plain tiles
and one with pantiles, of varying ridge height. This exposed
south-east flank has, on the ground floor, a plain tripartite
sash window, a cross-casement window and a 2-light casement on
the 1st floor. To the rear is another extension, of single
storey, with a pantile roof. To the rear of No.123 is a tall
2-storey red-brick mid C19 extension with slate pyramid roof
and a 12-pane sash window in its rear wall. Abutting this is a
C20 extension.
INTERIOR: originally 2 separate structures, refronted as one
in the early C19. No.125 has one exposed and chamfered
bridging joist and corner post apparently of the late C16 or
early C17. The lower range to the rear has timber-framing of
late C17 or early C18. The ground-floor rooms of No.123 have
reeded architraves with roundels at the intersections, one
with a superimposed cornice. A tall rear room has an elaborate
reeded cornice now concealed above a suspended ceiling. The
central dogleg staircase has column newels and stick
balusters.

Listing NGR: TL8531606949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548243

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