Electricity Showrooms
ELECTRICITY SHOWROOMS, 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142478
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Electricity Showrooms
- Statutory Address:
- ELECTRICITY SHOWROOMS, 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142478
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Electricity Showrooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELECTRICITY SHOWROOMS, 39 AND 41, 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.
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:
- ELECTRICITY SHOWROOMS, 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Dunmow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6282221856
Details
TL 6221
8/45
GREAT DUNMOW
HIGH STREET (E side)
39, 41 Electricity Showrooms
GV
II
Shop and offices, former house, C16 and later, timber framed and plastered of
2 storeys with attics. Low pitched early C19, slate gabled roof with raised
ridge line towards S end. Front has 6, C19 d.h.s. without g.b.'s on first
floor, over a carriage arch, a C19 small shopwindow and a wide C20 shopfront.
Off-centre very large red brick stack with 4 angled shafts, rebuilt to old
design in C19. At N end C17 peg tile roofed gabled block. The interior reveals
2 floored bays and crosswing of the mid C16 and later extension- bays of C18 or
C19 at N and S ends. That to the N forms the carriage arch. The roof is
complete beneath the later early C19 slate covering and has 2 crown post bays
with curiously only the collar purlin and braces, soot blackened. Lime washed,
covered C17 wall paintings in roof space. early C16 stack rises through
buildings with exposed, flat-arched opening with cant-sided interior, 2 orders
of chamfering and very low stops to former hall. Early C18 doors, and cupboards
in upper floor and 2 curious stubby, spiral timber columns support roof over
later stair tower on first floor. Likely to be c.1500 open hall with slightly
later brick stack, rebuilt to provide 2 storeys in late C16 with earlier
fragments incorporated.
Listing NGR: TL6282221856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353292
- 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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