Cinque Port Wreck House James and Stone Shipyard
CINQUE PORT WRECK HOUSE JAMES AND STONE SHIPYARD, WATERSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235278
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cinque Port Wreck House James and Stone Shipyard
- Statutory Address:
- CINQUE PORT WRECK HOUSE JAMES AND STONE SHIPYARD, WATERSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235278
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cinque Port Wreck House James and Stone Shipyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CINQUE PORT WRECK HOUSE JAMES AND STONE SHIPYARD, WATERSIDE
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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:
- CINQUE PORT WRECK HOUSE JAMES AND STONE SHIPYARD, WATERSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brightlingsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08554 16246
Details
SCHEDULE
BRIGHTLINGSEA
The following building shall be added:
TM 0816-0916 WATERSIDE (West Side)
8/72 Cinque Port Wreck House, James and Stone Shipyard.
II
Warehouse. Late C18. Flemish bond red brick, partly rendered. Hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan aligned N-S. Two storeys. 4 bays on main facade, expressed by pilasters with elliptical arches. C20 windows; high level inserted C20 doorway in southernmost bay on east facade. Two-bay end walls have similar pattern of pilasters with elliptical arches. History: The building is called the "Cinque Ports Warehouse" in the 1829 parish Ratebook - a reference to the Status of Brightlingsea until 1811 as the only limb of the Cinque Ports north of the Thames Estuary. The Lord Warden of these ports was entitled to a third of the value of all wrecks within his area. In 1850 there had been an inscription made over the upper doorway by its owner James Argent, formerly Receiver of the Wrecks for the town also giving this title. Subsequently known as "Old Wreck House". In the late C19/early C20 it was used by the Bridges family block making concern. In 1934 taken over as part of John James Shipyard. Believed to be last example of such a wreckhouse within the former area of jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports and a rare surviving example of this type of building. (C Dove, The Liberty of Brightlingsea, 1974 and other notes 1988).
Listing NGR: TM0855416246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dove, C, The Liberty of Brightlingsea, (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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