Description

CLACTON-ON-SEA OLD ROAD TM 1716 GREAT CLACTON (west side) 13/22 No. 383 SII House. Circa 1679 with c.1840 facade and alterations. Timber framed, painted brick facade, weatherboarded returns. Grey slate roof. Right and left red brick chimney stacks. End pilasters. 2 storeys. 3 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. Central doorway, moulded capitals and bases to pilasters, frieze, flat canopy over. To left a C19 single storey extension with a vertically boarded door and matching window used as a trap shed at one time with stable and workshop forward left. This range with vertically boarded doors and large window with 9 mullions, the glass of overlapping small panes. The timber ridge louvre with finial and on its north face a carved greyhound from the prow of the ship Greyhound, sunk off Clacton 1884. Former occupiers were involved in smuggling and a raid by Customs and Excise men c.1832 is recorded. Various articles in local newspapers and Essex Countryside.

Listing NGR: TM1759616329

External Links

• Wikidata Q26603498

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)