Description

MALDON

TL8506NW HIGH STREET
574-1/9/108 (South West side)
24/09/71 No.140
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Nos.140-144, 144A (Even))

GV II

Shop. Early to mid C16 and C17. Timber-framed and rendered
with plain tiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with gabled cross-wing and part of range
(with No.142 (qv)) parallel to street with higher ridgeline.
The cross-wing has a 2-light C19 casement window with central
horizontal glazing bar on the 1st floor. The ground floor has
a C20 shop front with fascia and display window of 2 large
panes and glazed door. The adjoining range to south-east is
recessed behind cross-wing and has a 12-pane sash window with
moulded surround on 1st floor. The ground floor has a wide
passage entrance with painted boarded doors.
C19 lean-to rear extensions with asbestos sheet roofs, behind
cross-wing which is hipped to the rear.
INTERIOR: 3-bay C16 cross-wing with jowled posts, square
exposed floor joists and no evidence for jetty. Crown-post
roof with thin longitudinal braces to front gable and over
first tie beam. Collar purlin stops at king stud on second tie
beam. The central collar over front 2 bays is tenoned rather
than halved into slightly sturdier rafter pair. Some evidence
for wall bracing and former windows on front and rear
elevations. Originally these were single 3-bay chambers on
each floor. One C17 door of moulded rebated boards survives on
1st floor. The adjoining range is of the early C17 with a
clasped side-purlin roof, chamfered spine beam and smallish
square floor joists.
(RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 177:13).

Listing NGR: TL8540506875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548245

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