51, HIGH STREET

51, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1111433
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
51, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
51, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1111433
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
51, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
51, HIGH STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
51, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Tendring (District Authority)
Parish:
Brightlingsea
National Grid Reference:
TM 08855 16776

Details

BRIGHTLINGSEA HIGH STREET TM 0816-0916 (north side)

8/37 18.7.49 No. 51

GV II

House. C18. Red brick. Double range red plain tiled roofs. External right and left red brick chimney stacks. Parapet and parapet verges. 2 storeys and attics. 2 later flat headed dormers. Moulded brick band under parapet and central band. 5 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes with thick glazing bars. Gauged brick arches with keystones. Central 6 panelled door, fluted surround. Elaborate early C19 lacework cast iron porch with flat canopy, probably the work of an early foundry, Wallis of Colchester. Moulded lead porch to rear door with trefoiled edging. Interior features include, dado panelling to front room, chamfered ceiling beams, C18 oval ground floor fire surround. Early C19 cast iron fire surround. C18 red brick kitchen fireplace with iron soffit tie. Late C19/Early C20 home of Dr. E.P. Dickin, Brightlingsea historian. Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology, East Anglia John Booker, 1980.

Listing NGR: TM0885516776

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Legacy System number:
120164
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Alderton, David, Booker, John, The Batsford Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of East Anglia, (1980)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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