GREYS EAST THE GREYS

GREYS EAST, MALDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171108
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: GREYS EAST THE GREYS
Statutory Address:: GREYS EAST, MALDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171108
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: GREYS EAST THE GREYS
Statutory Address 1:: GREYS EAST, MALDON ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: THE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GREYS EAST, MALDON ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE 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 86076 18233

Details

KELVEDON MALDON ROAD TL 8618-8718 (east side)

10/256 The Greys and Greys 25.6.74 East (formerly listed as The Greys)

GV II

House and office, now house and cottage. 1858. Painted brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Double pile plan facing SE, with 2 internal stacks of gault brick, asymmetrically arranged. Large service wing to rear right, and smaller and lower wing, formerly the accounts office of Greys Mill, now Greys East, in the angle in front of it, with one stack at the junction and one internal stack. Small single-storey extension with hipped roof to rear of service wing. 2 storeys. 3-window range of sashes with marginal lights and shallow segmental arches. Central 6-panel door, the lower part flush, in doorcase with reeded surround and paterae, panelled jambs and soffit, overlight with geometrical cast iron tracery, and moulded flat canopy. In Greys East, one C20 metal casement on ground floor, one original sash on first floor, plain door. Hipped roofs of shallow pitch with long overhangs. In left return, one sash of 12 lights and one French window with marginal lights, both original, on ground floor. In right return of Greys East, one original sash of 12 lights with original external shutter on ground floor, round window on first floor. Original sashes of 12 lights and tripartite sashes in right return of service wing and rear elevation of main house. Much crown glass. Original stair with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and moulded treads. 4-panel internal doors. Formerly the house and office of Grey's Mill (item 10/257, q.v.), also known as Docwra's, both rebuilt for George Docwra after a fire in 1858 (R. Benham, Some Essex Water Mills, 1976, 67).

Listing NGR: TL8607618233

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 116553
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Benham, H, Some Essex Water Mills, (1976), 67

Legal

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