MIDDLETON HOMES FOR THE BLIND

MIDDLETON HOMES FOR THE BLIND, 48, WANTZ ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256324
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: MIDDLETON HOMES FOR THE BLIND
Statutory Address:: MIDDLETON HOMES FOR THE BLIND, 48, WANTZ ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256324
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: MIDDLETON HOMES FOR THE BLIND
Statutory Address 1:: MIDDLETON HOMES FOR THE BLIND, 48, WANTZ 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:: MIDDLETON HOMES FOR THE BLIND, 48, WANTZ ROAD

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County:: Essex
District:: Maldon (District Authority)
Parish:: Maldon
National Grid Reference:: TL 85297 06752

Details

MALDON

TL8506NW WANTZ ROAD 574-1/9/216 (West side) 24/09/71 No.48 Middleton Homes for the Blind

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses, now home for the blind. Early C19. Grey Gault brick with slate gambrel roof, hipped on its north-east corner; 5 ridgeline stacks. Originally 5 terrace houses, the southernmost unit double fronted. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 10-window range. 5 lean-to dormers behind parapet with stone coping and with 6-pane sashes. Moulded stucco cornice below parapet and returning along north flank. Southern unit has three 12-pane sash windows on 1st floor; the ground floor has a central former door with semicircular head, now a small-paned sash window; to the south is a canted bay window with sash window with 2 vertical glazing bars; other side of door is a similar 12-pane sash. Rest of facade has semicircular-headed entrances alternating with sash windows; 1st floor has 4 blind window recesses alternating with sashes. All but one of the door openings have now been filled with sash windows. The exception has a projecting Ionic porch with columns, a semicircular fanlight and door with one large raised-and-fielded panel. The rear has 7 lean-to dormers each with a 6-pane sash and five 12-pane and one 9-pane sashes on 1st floor. Ground floor is obscured by C20 rear slate-roofed extensions projecting out at right-angles. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8529706752

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Legacy System number:: 465036
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.