Description

MALDON

TL8506NW HIGH STREET
574-1/9/111 (South West side)
24/09/71 Nos.160, 160A, 162, 164
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Nos.160 & 160A)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Nos.162 & 164)

GV II*

Shops and flats. c1400. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled
plain tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 4-window range.
No.160 has ground floor of painted brick. No.164 has central
diagonal rebuilt stack and 2 hipped dormers with C20 2-light
casements with central horizontal glazing bars.
1st floor of No.162 has two C20 top-hung casement windows,
each with a central vertical glazing bar. The 1st floor of
No.160 has 2 sash windows with moulded surrounds and central
vertical glazing bars. No.162 is jettied with exposed brackets
and joists and its ground floor has two C20 small-pane shop
windows with bulls-eye glass and a C20 6-panelled door with 2
upper panels glazed.
The ground floor of No.162 has C20 shop front of 2 large
single panes, painted full-width timber fascia, recessed C20
glazed door and door to No.162.
The rear of No.162 has C20 2-storeyed rendered extension with
gabled plain tile roof and C20 two-light casement. Lean-to of
plain tiles against rear walls. The rear of No.160 has tarred
red-brick C19 2-storeyed extension with gabled pantile roof
and further, single-storey extension in Gault brick with
gabled pantiled roof. Also a large C20 flat-roofed extension
covering most of back elevation.
INTERIOR: pair of originally identical Wealden type houses of
c1400, probably built as a speculative venture. Each house has
a 2-storeyed 'cross-wing' with former shop in front bay of
ground floor. The 1st-floor front elevation has fragments of
arch-headed window, now beneath render. Single-bay hall of
unusual length with remnants of hall window in No.162. This
unit has C17 inserted floor in hall and inglenook stack of
same date. Simple crown-post roofs with thick longitudinal
bracing.

(RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 177:15).

Listing NGR: TL8546406832

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532228

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (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]