Description

MALDON

TL8407SE HIGH STREET
574-1/6/63 (South East side)
24/09/71 No.20

GV II

Shown on OS map as No.18, High Street.
Shop and offices. C14, C15, and C16. Timber-framed and
rendered with gabled plain tile roofs. Main rectangular block
and angled wing at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. Front has M-profile roof
and 2 flush small-paned sash windows with moulded surrounds.
The ground floor has a C19 small shop front of one large glass
pane, and large, square small-paned sash window with moulded
surround. Rendered plinth.
The exposed south-west flank is part-rendered, part-black
weatherboarded with C20 plain fixed-light window. Exposed post
on north-west corner with mortice for jetty bracket. Rear of
the wing has black weatherboarding on gable and upper floor
over render. Rendered stack on north-east flank.
INTERIOR: the north-eastern half of the main range is a 2-bay
cross-wing with jowled posts and widely spaced studs, exposed
on 1st floor. Surviving arch braces to tie beam are steeply
raked and of remarkably thick section. The south-west girding
beam is moulded with a flat and hollow chamfer, probably to
former hall. A late C14 date seems probable for this part of
the structure.
The south-western half of the front range is later and without
obvious features, but may incorporate material from former
hall.
To the rear of this part is a mid C16 timber-frame, exposed on
the ground floor. This small rectangular structure has remains
of 2 former windows in its north-west face with rectangular
mortices for moulded mullions, 2 one side and 3 the other of a
moulded chamfered post. Each light has a circular central
mortice for iron or timber security bar. The ceiling has
moulded joists and moulded spine and bridging joists of
'pointed' sections with flat chamfer between bold bowtells. On
the 1st floor, the rear tie beam and an intermediate tie beam,
formerly with arch braces, are exposed, with simple octagonal
crown posts with low-mounted longitudinal bracing. Those
elements probably represent an earlier structure rather than
relating to the mid C16 work below. The RCHME mentions beam
dated 1597, not now in evidence and perhaps part of a further
undetectable phase.
(RCHME: Essex Central and South-east: London: 1921-).

Listing NGR: TL8486807020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548357

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  For the Record
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)