Reeds House
38, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256562
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Reeds House
- Statutory Address:
- 38, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256562
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Reeds House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- REEDS HOUSE, 40, LONDON 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:
- 38, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- REEDS HOUSE, 40, LONDON 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 84582 07108
Details
MALDON
TL8407SE LONDON ROAD 574-1/6/153 (North East side) 24/09/71 Nos.38 AND 40 Reeds House (No.40) (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (North side) Nos.38, 40 AND 40A)
GV II
Grammar school, now 2 houses. Early C19 with earlier origins. Timber-framed and rendered with C20 pargeted panels and hipped slate roof with 4 stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-window range. Front elevation has 12-pane sash windows, each with moulded surrounds, on 1st floor. Ground floor has central wide doorcase with pilasters and hood on brackets to door of 6 raised-and-fielded panels and very narrow sidelights with panels beneath; 6 similar sash windows on ground floor and 2 simple doorcases, one with door of 6 raised-and-fielded panels and the other to a slated lean-to at south-east end. North-west flank has black weatherboarded ground floor, as does ground floor of rear elevation. This garden elevation has five 12-pane sash windows and 2 smaller 16-pane sash windows on 1st floor. On the ground floor there are two 12-pane sash windows, some later openings and a boldly projecting semicircular bow window, with cornice to flat roof, small panes and thin dividing pilasters. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: originally the Grammar School endowed in 1608 by Ralph Breeder.
Listing NGR: TL8458207108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464775
- 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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