Description

MALDON

TL8506NW WANTZ ROAD
574-1/9/218 (West side)
24/09/71 Nos.72, 74 AND 76
The Star House (No.72)
(Formerly Listed as:
WANTZ ROAD
(West side)
Nos.72, 74 & 76
The Star Public House (72))

GV II

Public house, now guest house, and 2 houses. Early C19. Red
Flemish-bond brick, painted to No.72, with slate Mansard roof,
hipped at south end and north-east corner.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 7-window range. Front and
north return flank has plain parapet with stone coping and
stucco cornice. No.76 has one lean-to dormer with sash with
one vertical glazing bar. No.74 has two C20 small-paned
dormers. No.72 has two 2-light casement dormers with lean-to
roofs. No.76 has two 12-pane sashes on 1st floor and a blind
window over one similar window and a semi-circular headed
door. No.74 is similar but with window in place of blind
opening on 1st floor. No.72 is double-fronted version but with
canted sash windowed bays either side of central
semicircular-arched door.
The north flank is similar to this but with 2 blind recesses
and one 12-pane sash over a blind recess, blocked door and one
12-pane sash on ground floor.
The rear of No.72, of red brick, has three 12-pane sash
windows on 1st floor, and a lean-to slate-roofed rear block.
The Mansard roof has 2 old rooflights. The rear elevations of
Nos 74 and 76 have C20 windows, casements to No.74 and
small-paned sashes to No.76.
INTERIOR: No.72 has a reeded C19 fireplace; the building was
The Star Public House until the 1970s. It has been suggested
that it was built as 2 units

Listing NGR: TL8530006693

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547850

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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