LITTLE GREYS

LITTLE GREYS, MALDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171089
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: LITTLE GREYS
Statutory Address:: LITTLE GREYS, MALDON ROAD

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Date:: 2005-10-31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171089
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: LITTLE GREYS
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE GREYS, MALDON ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LITTLE GREYS, 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 86027 18241

Details

KELVEDON MALDON ROAD TL 8618-8718 (west side)

10/254 Little Greys 25.6.74

GV II

House. Early C17 and early C19, altered in early C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Complex plan comprising (1) early C17 range aligned NW-SE with central stack, (2) large early C19 extension to SW, completing an irregular half-H plan facing SE, with stacks in the left and rear walls of the left range, (3) early C19 service wing to left, with end stack, (4) C20 single-storey brick extension beyond. Mainly 2 storeys with cellar, service wing of one storey with attic. Scattered fenestration, including one early C19 sash of 12 lights over door. Early C19 half-glazed door with 9 lights, in contemporary reeded doorcase, within early C20 gabled porch with half-glazed outer door. Fretted bargeboards on both gables. The right return, facing Maldon Road, has 2 early C19 sashes of 12 lights, one early C20 casement, all with C20 external hinged shutters, and 3 C20 casements in gabled dormers with fretted bargeboards. The left return has one similar sash on the first floor. The rear elevation has a similar sash on the first floor, and incised in the rear stack, 18 JD 14, for John Docwra. Crown glass in the early C19 windows. Grouped diagonal shafts on original and left stack. Early C19 stair with scrolled tread-ends, stick balusters, wreathed handrail, and similar gallery. Wagon ceilings over stair hall and first-floor rooms of early C19 extension. In right front ground-floor room, wide wood-burning hearth reduced for C20 grate, and hardwood floorboards. Rear ground-floor room re-styled in early C20, with later lowered ceiling. In left front ground-floor room, early C19 cast iron ducknest grate with 2 figures in oval medallions, ribbon garlands, and reflector splays, in contemporary wooden surround with 2 slender fluted columns with Composite capitals, a rare feature of high quality meriting special care. Many plain battened internal doors, early CL9 or earlier. Hardwood floorboards in attic of service wing. This house was described as Grey's Cottage in a sale catalogue of c.1910, and in the provisional list of 1960.

Listing NGR: TL8602718241

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Legacy System number:: 116551
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.