Description

1.
5401 MALTRAVERS STREET
(North Side)

Nos 40 to 44 (even)
TQ 0107 1/49A 5.6.69.

II GV

2.
Laze C19. Terraced houses. Architect J A Hansom. Red brick. Ashlar dressings,
stringcourses and coping to gable parapet. Pitched tile roofs. Red brick chimneys
with cornicing.
3 storeys. South elevation of each house has 1 planked oak door under 4-centred
arch with chamfered jambs and voussoirs, above this are 2 square lights with diagonal
lead glazing bars, also with chamfered surrounds. One 4-light mullion-and-transom
window with casements and ornamental lead glazing bars, and chamfered surrounds
on ground floor. A similar window of 4 lights, and 1 of 1 light on the 1st floor.
Another of 3 ligts on the 2nd floor, set within a gable with a coped parapet and
gablet set at right angles to it at its apex.
1 range of similar 2-light windows between projecting chimneys on west elevation.
Between stringcourses at the south-west corner is an aedicule, the moulded base
taken on acanthus corbelling, framed by colonnettes, with a battered canopy with
finial and drop tracery, over niche containing statue of crowned male figure in
mediaeval dress, a sword in right hand, and model of a Romanesque church in left
hand (presumably a royal founder).

Nos 34 to 44 (even) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ0160107068

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567397

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)