Benbridge Hotel
Benbridge Hotel, The Square, Heybridge, Maldon, CM9 4LT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256352
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Benbridge Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Benbridge Hotel, The Square, Heybridge, Maldon, CM9 4LT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256352
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Benbridge Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Benbridge Hotel, The Square, Heybridge, Maldon, CM9 4LT
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:
- Benbridge Hotel, The Square, Heybridge, Maldon, CM9 4LT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heybridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85443 08151
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 January 2025 to amend the name and reformat the text to current standards.
TL8508SW
574-1/4/268
MALDON
Heybridge
THE SQUARE (north west side)
Benbridge Hotel
(Formerly The Bembridge Hotel, previously listed as: THE SQUARE, Heybridge Bentall's Hostel)
24/09/71
GV
II
Hostel, now hotel. Mid C19. Rendered brick with double-gabled hipped slate gambrel roofs and gabled slate roofed block at right-angles.
EXTERIOR: main part of two storeys with attic; four window range; two storey rear range. Front elevation has three segmental-headed dormers with nine-pane sashes behind plain parapet with stone coping. Stucco-moulded cornice at base of parapet and thin corner pilasters. Both storeys have two wide and two narrower margin-glazed sashes with broad stucco surrounds with square decorative corners.
Elevation to north west has a nine-pane sash with moulded surround, flush with wall, in each attic; ends of valley concealed by parapet. First floor has two recessed twelve-pane sashes; ground floor has replica fluted Doric doorcase with recessed entrance and semicircular bow window with moulded cornice, small paned sashes and fluted thin pilasters. The rendered two storey range to rear has three sixteen-pane recessed sashes on each floor.
South west elevation has small projecting flat-roofed block, small-paned first floor door to fire escape, one nine-pane sash to attic and one twelve-pane sash on first floor. Single-storey rear range with slate roof and slate-roofed lean-tos. Rear elevation has C20 dormers and red English-bond brickwork.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: built as employees' hostel by Bentall's.
Listing NGR: TL8544308151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465018
- 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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