The Star House
74 AND 76, WANTZ ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256327
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Star House
- Statutory Address:
- 74 AND 76, WANTZ ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256327
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Star House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 74 AND 76, WANTZ ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE STAR HOUSE, 72, WANTZ ROAD
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:
- 74 AND 76, WANTZ ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE STAR HOUSE, 72, WANTZ ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Maldon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85300 06693
Details
MALDON
TL8506NW WANTZ ROAD 574-1/9/218 (West side) 24/09/71 Nos.72, 74 AND 76 The Star House (No.72) (Formerly Listed as: WANTZ ROAD (West side) Nos.72, 74 & 76 The Star Public House (72))
GV II
Public house, now guest house, and 2 houses. Early C19. Red Flemish-bond brick, painted to No.72, with slate Mansard roof, hipped at south end and north-east corner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 7-window range. Front and north return flank has plain parapet with stone coping and stucco cornice. No.76 has one lean-to dormer with sash with one vertical glazing bar. No.74 has two C20 small-paned dormers. No.72 has two 2-light casement dormers with lean-to roofs. No.76 has two 12-pane sashes on 1st floor and a blind window over one similar window and a semi-circular headed door. No.74 is similar but with window in place of blind opening on 1st floor. No.72 is double-fronted version but with canted sash windowed bays either side of central semicircular-arched door. The north flank is similar to this but with 2 blind recesses and one 12-pane sash over a blind recess, blocked door and one 12-pane sash on ground floor. The rear of No.72, of red brick, has three 12-pane sash windows on 1st floor, and a lean-to slate-roofed rear block. The Mansard roof has 2 old rooflights. The rear elevations of Nos 74 and 76 have C20 windows, casements to No.74 and small-paned sashes to No.76. INTERIOR: No.72 has a reeded C19 fireplace; the building was The Star Public House until the 1970s. It has been suggested that it was built as 2 units
Listing NGR: TL8530006693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465039
- 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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