The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 1, MALDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171082
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 1, MALDON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2007-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/16667/27
- Rights:
- © Mr G.W. Garthwaite. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171082
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 1, 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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 1, 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 85978 18315
Details
KELVEDON MALDON ROAD TL 8418-8518 (west side)
9/252 No. 1 (The Old School 25.6.74 House) (formerly listed as Old Schoolmaster's House)
GV II
House. C15, extended in C18/19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with mainly handmade red plain tiles, with some red clay pantiles. 2 storeys and cellar. 2 bays facing NE, with C17 external stack to left, extended to right in C18/19 with internal stack at right end. Single-storey extension to right. C20 lean-to extension to rear of left end. Garage to left. Ground floor, one C19 splayed bay of C20 sashes below jetty, extending forwards, one C20 casement. First floor, 3 C20 casements. Flush 6-panel door, early C19, at head of steps, with iron handrail. The rear pitch of the right part is pantiled. 3 plain brackets under jetty. The original part at left has a chamfered axial beam with step stops, joists plastered to the soffits, a studded partition to the right with an original doorway with chamfered double-ogee head, mortice for draught screen beside it, and large peg-holes for attached bench; also an inserted doorway with 4-centred head. This doorway originally led to the parlour of a larger house, but this part has been demolished and replaced in the C18/19. C17 wood-burning hearth at left end, with chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops, and some later brickwork. Jowled posts, cambered tiebeam chamfered with plain stops, arched braces to it missing, crownpost roof with plain crownpost (broken) and 3 axial braces. Modern rafters above the original rear rafters. C18 ripple-pattern pargetting on right side of this partition in roof, indicating a period when it formed the external wall. It is likely that the house originally extended to the left also. Exceptional height at both storeys, indicating high status. Cellar in C18/19 extension. From 1630 this house became the schoolmaster's house of Aylett's School; part of it was reported to be in ruinous condition in 1741, and demolished soon afterwards. (B.L. Kentish, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, 1974, 65-6). RCHM 10.
Listing NGR: TL8597818315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kentish, BL, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, (1974), 65-6
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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