Kings House and Cottage to Rear

KINGS HOUSE AND COTTAGE TO REAR, 16, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256538
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Kings House and Cottage to Rear
Statutory Address:
KINGS HOUSE AND COTTAGE TO REAR, 16, MARKET HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256538
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:
Kings House and Cottage to Rear
Statutory Address 1:
KINGS HOUSE AND COTTAGE TO REAR, 16, MARKET HILL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KINGS HOUSE AND COTTAGE TO REAR, 16, MARKET HILL

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 85060 07184

Details

MALDON

TL8507SW MARKET HILL 574-1/7/164 (North East side) 02/10/51 No.16 Kings House and cottage to rear (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL (East side) No.16)

GV II

House and attached cottage. c1840. Stuccoed brick with gabled plain tile roof with ridge hip to far block at right-angles at rear; large Gault brick stack on north-west flank. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and cellar; 3-window range. Segmental-headed dormer with 2-light casement. Plain parapet with stone coping and painted moulded stone cornice. 1st floor has 3 sash windows, each with a single vertical glazing bar, with rendered shouldered surround. Ground floor has a linked pair of similar windows with architrave and cornice and linking sill, but with segmental heads. Segmental-headed carriage arch and moulded plinth. Entrance door within alley on flank has moulded hood/cornice on consoles, all of stucco, and 6-flush-panel door with rectangular fanlight and panelled reveals. Rear wing has half-hipped plain tile roof and 12-pane sash windows to attic, 1st and 2nd floors. The flank has one sash window on ground floor. The cottage to the rear is of 2 storeys with slate gabled roof and red/brown brick. The corner to alley is curved with corbelling over. The 1st floor has two 12-pane sash windows. Ground floor has C19 porch with boarded flanks and a C20 two-light casement. INTERIOR: main house has cantilevered open-well staircase with curved soffit, wreathed hardwood handrail, stick balusters and shaped tread ends. Marble fireplace on 1st floor and numerous contemporary doors, simple cornices and architraves.



Listing NGR: TL8506007184

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Legacy System number:
464797
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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