County Library and Local History Museum
COUNTY LIBRARY AND LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM, MALDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123804
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- County Library and Local History Museum
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTY LIBRARY AND LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM, MALDON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09858/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123804
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- County Library and Local History Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTY LIBRARY AND LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM, MALDON 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:
- COUNTY LIBRARY AND LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM, MALDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85980 18286
Details
KELVEDON MALDON ROAD TL 8418-8518 (west side)
9/253 County Library and 25.6.74 Local History Museum (formerly listed as the School)
GV II
School, now library and museum. C18, altered and extended in c19. Red brick in English bond, extended in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Rectangular plan facing SE with axial stack at right end. Late C19 extension to right. C20 single-storey extensions at both ends; those at the left end are weatherboarded and roofed with red clay pantiles. Late C19 gabled porch in Gothic Revival style to front. One storey. 2 late C19 windows in Gothic Revival style, each of 4 lights with 4-centred heads in a segmental arch, and 3 casements in right extension. C19 Gothic Revival door. The original build has a double-chamfered plinth. In left end, blocked high window, killers, and vent in gable. Butt-purlin roof in 4 bays, ceiled in 4 cants, the principals ovolo-moulded with lamb's tongue stops, 2 chamfered tiebeams with lamb's tongue stops, plain purlins. In the middle of the rear wall the date 1743 in a cartouche in high relief. The porch is shown in the First Edition 25" O.S. map of 1875; the right extension is not shown until the Second Edition of 1895. (B.L. Kentish, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, 1974, 65-6). RCHM 11.
Listing NGR: TL8598018286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kentish, BL, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, (1974)
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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