Essex and Suffolk Fire Office
ESSEX AND SUFFOLK FIRE OFFICE, 157, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306789
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Essex and Suffolk Fire Office
- Statutory Address:
- ESSEX AND SUFFOLK FIRE OFFICE, 157, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306789
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Essex and Suffolk Fire Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESSEX AND SUFFOLK FIRE OFFICE, 157, HIGH STREET
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:
- ESSEX AND SUFFOLK FIRE OFFICE, 157, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 99437 25211
Details
1. HIGH STREET 995 (North Side) No 157 (Essex and Suffolk Fire Office) (Formerly listed as Essex and Suffolk TL 9925 SW 4/121 24.2.50. Equitable Insurance Office)
II* GV
2. Fine early C19 neo-classical facade with projecting colonnade. 1820 by David Laing. Built as a Corn Exchange. Originally 2 storeys with central pediment, a 3rd storey was added later. It is now of 3 storeys with central pediment and small open pediments at each end of the front, 9-window range of double hung sashes with glazing bars, the ground floor windows have arched heads. The colonnade has 9 pairs of cast iron Greek Doric columns across the pavement. The arcade behind was enclosed in later C19 and remodelled with plate glass in 1966.
Nos 156 to 158 (consec) and Albert Hall form a group
Listing NGR: TL9943725211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 117031
- 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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