Description

MALDON

TL80NE FULLBRIDGE
574-1/2/38 (North West side)
11/12/91 Maldon Ironworks and railings on
south corner

II

Ironworks, now snooker club, being converted to shops. Mid
C19. Yellow Gault brick with red brick dressings;
double-gabled sheet-metal roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Front has 2 low-pitched gables with red
brick courses under eaves with course of angled bricks. An
attic storey above an entablature and giant pilasters
delineated by courses of red bricks. Each gable has a central
circular window, outlined in bands of red brick and stone.
The Fullbridge front has a broad central pilaster/pier,
narrower piers on flanks and intermediate narrow piers. These
frame recessed panels, which above the entablature are treated
as a semicircular motif, with a pair of windows with margin
glazing bars and a narrow dividing pilaster. The cornice of
red bricks includes a course of angled bricks. At entablature
level each recessed part has a stone band inscribed in Roman
lettering: MALDON: IRONWORKS: COMPANY: LIMITED. The recessed
panels each have, on each floor, 2 windows of 4 panes with
ventilator over. Between storeys are panels of red herringbone
brick with central stone boss. Moulded black brick plinth with
angled brick course in each recessed bay, and diamond motif in
entablature over piers. Above entablature, on the 4 corners of
the building are recessed square colonnettes. The flanks are
without pilaster piers but are subdivided by red-brick courses
into attic and order.
The SW flank has at attic level, 8 small-paned windows with
segmental heads, one altered. 1st floor has 8 similar but
deeper windows, one altered to form door. Ground floor has 4
such windows, 2 wide openings now variously infilled, a tall
narrow door opening with entrance recessed and a widened
opening. C20 iron fire escape down flank. The NE flank has 8
similar windows on attic floor, one now with louvres. 1st
floor has 8 windows, 3 altered to doors to 2 iron C20 fire
escapes. Ground floor has 8 windows, 3 of which now doors.
The rear elevation has a circular window in each gable.
INTERIOR: deep transverse beams supported on 3 rows of
cast-iron columns. One now on ground floor now partly on
stanchions.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: short length of cast-iron railing has
square iron pier with ball finial and brick plinth with stone

coping.

Listing NGR: TL8515107564

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548409

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