Description

MALDON

TL8407SE LONDON ROAD
574-1/6/154 (South West side)
25/02/94 County Court and frontage wall with
gate piers

GV II

County Court. 1858. Grey Gault bricks with ashlar dressings
and roofs invisible behind parapets.
PLAN: large building with tall single-storey range to front
and taller block to rear of site.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical front of 7 bays with end bays breaking
forward. Stone dentilled cornice with console brackets and
central stone free-standing Royal Arms on top of parapet. This
has a stone panelled base inscribed: 'DIEU ET MON DROIT' in
Egyptian letters. Centre has 5 semicircular-headed double-hung
sash windows set within semicircular-arched recesses, each
with brick flank pilasters with stone capitals. Each arch has
a stone keystone, and the moulded sill runs continuous, with
raised brick apron panel below. The projecting end bays have
brick rusticated pilasters and paired entrance doors at head
of flights of 3 stone steps. Continuous stone entablature over
with superimposed semicircular window with rubbed brick arch,
expanding upwards to meet tall brick keystones. Tall stack on
front range with consoles in stone.
Frontage has 2 entrances with contemporary brick and stone
gate piers, linked by low wall with stone saddleback coping.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Similar in general character to courthouse in Braintree,
Essex.

Listing NGR: TL8465007039

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548053

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]