Maysent House

MAYSENT HOUSE, 89, BRADFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1122551
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Maysent House
Statutory Address:
MAYSENT HOUSE, 89, BRADFORD STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1122551
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Maysent House
Statutory Address 1:
MAYSENT HOUSE, 89, BRADFORD 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MAYSENT HOUSE, 89, BRADFORD STREET

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 76019 24093

Details

885 BRADFORD STREET
(West Side) BOCKING
No 89 (Maysent House)
TL 7624 3/33 25.10.51.

GV II*

Originally a c16 timber-framed and plastered building altered in the C17 and
c18. Circa 1691 it was owned by John Maysent and was known as the Queen's Head Inn, a calling place for goods waggons travelling from London to East Anglia. A wing extending west at the rear is Cl6 and the front wing is C17 refaced in the C18 with a plastered brick front with a parapet, a dentilled cornice and rusticated quoins. 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 5 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in plain reveals, with keystones. A raised band runs between the storeys. A centra16~panel door with 4 upper panels glazed has
a semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing and a wood Roman Doric doorcase
with panelled reveals, cabled columns and an open pediment. Roof tiled, mansard, half-hipped at the north end, with 3 sloping roofed dormers.


Listing NGR: TL7601924093

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
113665
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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