Description

MALDON

TL8506NW HIGH STREET
574-1/9/100 (South East side)
24/09/71 Nos.106, 108 AND 110
Bloomfields (No.106)

GV II

Shops with flats over. C16. Timber-framed and rendered with
gabled plain tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. 1st floor has some ashlar
rendering and sash windows with moulded surrounds, that to
left with one vertical glazing bar, that to the centre with
margin glazing and that to right is tripartite with plate
glass. The ground floor has 3 shop fronts under a continuous
canted-out fascia with small consoles and blindbox. That to
left is C20 with recessed entrance, that to centre is C19 with
deep angled corner mullions, original door with fanlight and
raised-and-fielded lower panel; that to right, No.106, has C20
door with fanlight and 3-light plate-glass window. Ridgeline
stack at south-east end.
To the rear is a formerly separate C19 outhouse range now
linked to front by large concealed flat roof. This is of two
2-storey parts, the taller of which has a Welsh slate roof
hipped to north-west and gabled to south-east with tall stack.
The lower block has machine-made plain tile roof. The taller
block has sash windows with margin glazing. To the rear of
this are 2 superimposed lean-to roofs, one with Welsh slate
and one with plain tiles. No.106 has 2-storey rendered C18
rear extension with gabled plain tile roof.
INTERIOR: a timber-framed house of the early C16 of 2 short
and one longer bay, probably jettied towards the street. The 2
short bays formed rooms at 1st-floor levels with connecting
doors in the centre of their partitions. Remains of crown-post
roof survive with thin longitudinal bracing. North-western
rooms have shutter groove in front wall plate for window. The
2 end rooms have central spine beams in their 1st floors and
framing of wider bay has trimmed gap in spine beam for stairs
or chimney stack. Posts are jowled. The rear wall of
Bloomfields has later stack with late C18 fireplace with
moulded shelf and shouldered architrave and C19 cast-iron
Gothic grate with shafts and 4-centred enclosing arch.

Listing NGR: TL8523306966

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548266

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