Fountain House Grape Vine Cottage the Grape Vine
FOUNTAIN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240279
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain House Grape Vine Cottage the Grape Vine
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-11-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/04300/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240279
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain House Grape Vine Cottage the Grape Vine
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FOUNTAIN SQUARE
- Statutory Address 3:
- GRAPE VINE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- THE GRAPE VINE, HIGH STREET
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:
- FOUNTAIN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- GRAPE VINE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRAPE VINE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mistley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 11747 31869
Details
MISTLEY HIGH STREET TM 1131 (north side) FOUNTAIN SQUARE
10/235 Fountain House, The Grape Vine and Grape 17.11.66 Vine Cottage
GV II
Formerly one building reputed to have been built as a malting office or assembly room or hotel for the projected spa for Richard Rigby, now 3 dwellings facing Swan Fountain. C18. Red brick, Fountain House (left) now painted. Double range hipped red tiled roofs. 2 red brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys. Parpapet. Stone dentilled band under. Central band. The 3 central bays break forward. Dentilled pediment breaking through the parapet, circular window to apex. 3:3:3 window range of 2 light casements to first floor (those to left C20) 2, 7 and 9 blocked. Central blocked semi-elliptical window. Small paned vertically sliding sashes to ground floor. Central semi-elliptical porch supported by Tuscan columns. 2 recessed and angled vertically boarded doors q.v. 3/227.
Listing NGR: TM1174731869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438428
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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