Description

TOLLESBURY CHURCH STREET
TL 9410-9510
(west side)
8/14 No. 10
GV II

House. C18, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, brick facade, all
plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing E with central
stack, originally forming a lobby-entrance, now blocked. Original rear wing,
forming a T-plan. C18/C19 extensions in both rear angles. Extended to left by
one bay in C19, with C20 extension to rear. One storey with attics. 3 C20
sashes of 12, 16 and 16 lights respectively in late C18 style, and 3 similar
sashes of 12 lights in lean-to dormers. 2 C20 doors. Gambrel roof. Dentilled
course below eaves at front. Chimney shaft cement-rendered. Transverse beams
of softwood, of vertical section, chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and plain
joists of vertical section. One original window of 20 fixed lights, with crown
and bull's-eye glass, now in internal wall, not in its original position. Major
renovation in 1965; old photographs show it as a shop and 2 cottages. A
conveyance of 5 December 1884 between William Walford, grocer, and his son of
the same name, draper, describes it as a 'brick built messuage ... divided into
and used as two several tenements and a shop many years ago built by Henry Ray
upon the site of an old messuage pulled down by him theretofore standing upon a
certain rood of land there commonly called the Guildhall'.

Listing NGR: TL9558910397

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613956

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