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

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (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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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover