Porters (Civic House)
PORTERS (CIVIC HOUSE), SOUTHCHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1112724
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Porters (Civic House)
- Statutory Address:
- PORTERS (CIVIC HOUSE), SOUTHCHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1112724
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Porters (Civic House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTERS (CIVIC HOUSE), SOUTHCHURCH ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PORTERS (CIVIC HOUSE), SOUTHCHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Southend-on-Sea (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 88610 85837
Details
SOUTHCHURCH ROAD 1. 5219 PRITTLEWELL Porters (Civic House) TQ 8885 7/15 23.11.51. I 2. The house takes its name from le-Porters, a prominent family in south-east Essex in the C14 who owned the estate. One of the family may have built an earlier house on the site. The first known owner of the present house is Humfrey Browne (d. 1592) but it may have been built by a member of the Tyrrell family who owned the estate earlier in the C16. It is a late C15 or early C16 red brick manor house with cross wings at the east and west ends gabled on the north and south fronts. At the end of the C16 it was completed or extensively rebuilt when the space between the wings was filled in and a porch built on the north front. There is a moulded brick plinth. 2 storeys and attics. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed casements, 3-5 lights. 4 window range on the north front and irregular fenestration on the south front. The windows on each storey under the gables on the north front are original with moulded mullions and transomes, also the ground storey window of the centre block. On the south front the attic windows in the gables and the 1st storey windows of the centre block are original. Some of the windows on the south side have moulded brick reveals. A gabled porch projects on the north side. Roof tiled, with 1 hipped dormer window on the south front and chimney stacks with diagonally set shafts on the east and west ends (rebuilt).
Listing NGR: TQ8861085837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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