Description

MALDON

TL8407SE BEELEIGH ROAD
574-1/6/7 (South West side)
04/10/94 No.37

II

House. 1906. Timber-framed with black weather-boarding and
hipped corrugated-zinc roof with wide roof overhang.
Continuously glazed clerestorey with further hipped zinc roof.
EXTERIOR: single storey with basement under north-east (front)
elevation which is perched over the bank of the so-called
Saxon Burgh. Front elevation has flight of open timber steps
up to front door, which has pilasters, possibly reused. Many
irregularly spaced casement windows, each with square top hung
ventilator lights over. A window on north-east corner of front
is V-canted under wide eaves. Rear garden elevation has wide
door opening with pilasters and 3 folding panelled hardwood
leaves.
INTERIOR: large central 'living hall' with panelled walls and
low cantilevered balcony on 2 sides giving access to cupboards
in roof space. Hall has grand and elaborate fireplace in
embossed steel with inverted pyramidal brackets and pierced
shelves, of an advanced Arts and Crafts style. A variety of
other fire surrounds including, in a front room, stained
timber with double mantel-shelf, cupboard with tiny glazed
panes, glazed coloured tiles in flanks and brass smoke
deflector.
HISTORY: built by local ironmonger in 'Colonial Style' to
please wife from New Zealand.

Listing NGR: TL8468307208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548503

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)