Description

MALDON

TL8407SE MARKET HILL
574-1/6/181 (South West side)
24/09/71 Hill House
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET HILL
(West side)
Maldon Borough Council Offices)

GV II

House, at one time borough council offices. Early C19.
Timber-framed and rendered with slate hipped roof with lead
flat, and belvedere with pyramid slate roof and small-pane
windows. Square plan with projecting basement forming
platform, with wide curving flight of stone steps leading up
from side to ground-floor level
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement platform; 3-window range.
Thin pilasters at corners. 2nd floor has sash windows, the
outer 2 with 2 vertical glazing bars and the centre with a
central vertical bar and margin glazing. The 1st floor has 3
deeper sash windows, the outer with 9 panes and central with 6
panes and margin glazing. Ground floor has central porch with
moulded cornice and fluted Grecian Doric columns; sides of
porch are infilled with margin-glazed sash windows with yellow
glass; 2 sash windows, now boarded up. The platform over
projecting basement has elaborate cast-iron railings and is
paved with exceptionally large stone (slate?) slabs. The front
face of basement has a central entrance with paired pilasters
and moulded cornice; either side are 2 wide segmental-headed
window openings and 2 doors, the latter with Doric pilasters
and cornices. Windows on basement and ground floor have
rendered expressed arches with keystones. At time of survey
the lower window and doors were boarded up.
The south-east flank has Gault brick stack and later oriel on
1st floor. North-west flank has truncated stack and fire
escape staircase. Porch at ground-floor level on rear.
INTERIOR: good quality softwood timber-frame with central hall
and staircase. Many internal fittings survive including
contemporary staircase, doors and architraves.

Listing NGR: TL8499807160

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547946

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