Description

MALDON

TL8407SE CROMWELL HILL
574-1/6/19 (North West side)
24/09/71 Nos.3A AND 3B
and Masonic Lodge; Cromwell Cottage
(No.3B)
(Formerly Listed as:
CROMWELL HILL
Nos.1, 3, 3A, 3B
Cromwell Lodge(1) The Masonic
Hall(3))

GV II

Masonic lodge and 2 houses. Early C19. Rendered brick with
roofs of Welsh slate and asbestos slate.
EXTERIOR: part 2-storey and part single-storey with attics.
Irregular group of contemporary building with U-shaped
frontage to Cromwell Hill. The Masonic Lodge has a 2-storey
annexe to street, with slate hipped roof and lean-to on
north-east flank. The 1st floor has 2-light horizontal-sliding
casements to 1st floor and door to street. The Lodge itself to
the rear is taller and of similar materials.
No.3A is a house of 2 storeys with basement; 3-window range.
2-light casements with segmental arched heads on 1st floor.
The ground floor has cellar entrance, French window and flight
of 3 steps up to semicircular-headed door opening with C20
hood. Also a 2-light casement with segmental head and a
curious recess, with arched head at the north-east end (former
passage).
No.3B (Cromwell Cottage) has a hipped roof to street, partly
of asbestos slate and a catslide block on south-west flank.
This has 2 segmental-roofed dormers with 2-light casements,
some C20 windows and a margin-glazed square window with
coloured glass inserts. The elevation to the street has one
sash window with central vertical glazing bar, blind recess to
1st floor over a shallow 16-pane bow window and cellar light
under. The north-east elevation has, on the 1st floor, a
16-pane sash window either side of a 12-pane sash. The ground
floor has a central semicircular-arched door with radiating
fanlight and similar double-hung sash windows either side. At
the north-west end is a 2-storey gabled block at right-angles
with barge-boards and a 16-pane sash window on each floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8497707207

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548486

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)