Description

MALDON

TL8507SW STATION ROAD
574-1/7/211 (North East side)
27/08/69 Maldon East Railway Station

II

Railway station, converted to offices. 1846. For the Eastern
Counties Railway Company. Red/brown Flemish bond brickwork
with dressings of Gault brickwork, stucco and ashlar. Jacobean
style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics and with former station
platform canopy to rear. The main block consists of 2
identical pavilions linked by projecting arcade and balcony
with low linking wall above. The front elevation of each
pavilion is surmounted by a Flemish gable with narrow slit
window and corner parapets with cornice on consoles. The
centre of 1st floor has a 2-light square-headed casement with
transom. The projecting 9-bay arcade has square stuccoed piers
with capitals supporting semicircular arches with stucco trim,
keystones; single arches complete the return flanks of arcade.
Decorative balustrade above with cast-iron finials over each
pier. The 3rd arch-bay from each end projects slightly.
The ground floor elevation, recessed behind colonnade is all
of Gault brick and is further recessed in centre between
pavilions. Each pavilion has 2 semicircular-headed windows
with radiating glazing bars in head and a single horizontal
glazing bar, either side of double entrance doors in the
centre. Flanks of central recess have blind recessed
semicircular-arched opening, one now an infilled door. The
central recessed part has 4 similar arched windows, one now in
process of conversion to a door.
The north-west and south-east exposed flanks of pavilions were
formerly similar and have a central smaller Flemish gable,
similar cornice and balustrade and three 2-light casements on
1st floor. The ground floor of north-west pavilion has 3
semicircular-arched windows, recessed within further arched
opening. The formerly obscured south-east flank, ground floor,
is now of red C20 brick with 3 sash windows. The internal
flanks of each pavilion have tall stacks each of 3 diagonal
shafts with attached bands. Some original hopper heads survive
and shallow-pitched gable roofs, behind parapet are, at time
of survey, without cladding.
The rear platform has fretted canopy supported on cast-iron
columns.
INTERIOR: much altered but fine timber roof structures
survive.

Listing NGR: TL8532707465

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Maldon East and Heybridge railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6742875

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