The Old Customs House

The Old Customs House, High Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7HG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239625
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1982
List Entry Name:: The Old Customs House
Statutory Address:: The Old Customs House, High Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7HG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239625
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1982
List Entry Name:: The Old Customs House
Statutory Address 1:: The Old Customs House, High Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7HG

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:: The Old Customs House, High Street, Rowhedge, Colchester, CO5 7HG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Colchester (District Authority)
Parish:: East Donyland
National Grid Reference:: TM 03106 21779

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 December 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

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ROWHEDGE HIGH STREET The Old Customs House

(Formerly listed as EAST DONYLAND HIGH STREET Row Hedge House, corner of Darkhouse Lane (former Rowhedge Ironworks)

II

Mid C18 house in red brick with red plain tile hipped roof. Two storeys with parapets and moulded string course. Three window range double hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. Good Doric porch with detached columns and flat canopy, semi-circular fanlight. Six panelled door, in panelled reveal. Red brick chimney stacks. C19 red brick single storey extension at north end.

Listing NGR: TM0310621779

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Legacy System number:: 417519
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.