Heybridge Mill House, Channels and Substructure

HEYBRIDGE MILL HOUSE, CHANNELS AND SUBSTRUCTURE, ANCHOR LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257132
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Heybridge Mill House, Channels and Substructure
Statutory Address:
HEYBRIDGE MILL HOUSE, CHANNELS AND SUBSTRUCTURE, ANCHOR LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257132
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:
Heybridge Mill House, Channels and Substructure
Statutory Address 1:
HEYBRIDGE MILL HOUSE, CHANNELS AND SUBSTRUCTURE, ANCHOR LANE

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
HEYBRIDGE MILL HOUSE, CHANNELS AND SUBSTRUCTURE, ANCHOR LANE

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 85308 08074

Details

MALDON

TL8508SW ANCHOR LANE, Heybridge 574-1/4/234 (North side) 02/10/51 Heybridge Mill House, channels and substructure (Formerly Listed as: ANCHOR LANE, Heybridge Heybridge Mills)

II

Mill house, now house. Late C18 and early C19. Timber-framed and rendered with plain tile roof to front range slate roofs to rear range and some extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with cellar; 3-window range; single-storey outbuilding. Front of main range has plain parapet and three 16-pane sash windows with moulded surrounds on first floor. Ground floor has projecting stucco porch with semicircular-arched entrance with keystone and imposts and recessed door of 2 vertical moulded panels; the flanks of porch have 2 pilasters and length of entablature. To the south-west is a canted bay window with 16-pane sash with keystone in timber and cornice. To the north-west is a segmental bow window of slight projection, 16-pane sash, cornice and thin fluted pilasters. A single-storey extension on north-east end has hipped slate roof, front plain parapet and similar bow window. C20 extension to SW, rendered with plain tile gambrel roof and one flat-topped dormer. This has two C20 small-paned casements, a door and a thin rendered stack. Beyond this is an early C19 single-storey brewhouse with gabled plain tile roof and ridgeline stack. This is part timber-framed and part red-brick with a white boarded southern gable with pigeon holes to loft behind with wooden nesting boxes. This structure contains fireplace and boiler. The rear wall has one 12-pane horizontal-sliding casement and a lean-to with asbestos roof which continues behind later extension. To the rear of the main block is a slate-roofed early C19 extension with unequal-pitch roof. Its rear elevation has on the 1st floor, one 6-pane fixed window and one 16-pane sash. The ground floor has one 12-pane sash window and one 20-pane sash all with moulded surrounds. The north-east gable of this part has one 16-pane sash over 2-pane sashes. Early C19 pair of French windows on rear of northern single-storey extension. Two stacks on rear of front range, none in valley and one stack on ridgeline of main rear block. INTERIOR: main house has 2 bays of late hardwood

timber-framing and central hall. This has elliptical front and rear arches with pilasters, the rear arch now obscured by straight staircase with a Chinese Chippendale handrail. The rear service range has kitchen with dresser and double-sided stack with cast-iron range and main arched opening with keystone. Former mill house and water mill stood close to house to south-east, and site has Chelmer Navigation to north and mill leat to south. This has brick enclosing walls and brick arch over former mill race, with cast-iron penstock behind.

Listing NGR: TL8530808074

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
464215
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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