Yacht Stores/sail Loft (Now Sail and Steam Workshop)
YACHT STORES/SAIL LOFT (NOW SAIL AND STEAM WORKSHOP), THE HARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337207
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yacht Stores/sail Loft (Now Sail and Steam Workshop)
- Statutory Address:
- YACHT STORES/SAIL LOFT (NOW SAIL AND STEAM WORKSHOP), THE HARD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337207
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yacht Stores/sail Loft (Now Sail and Steam Workshop)
- Statutory Address 1:
- YACHT STORES/SAIL LOFT (NOW SAIL AND STEAM WORKSHOP), THE HARD
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:
- YACHT STORES/SAIL LOFT (NOW SAIL AND STEAM WORKSHOP), THE HARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brightlingsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09004 16217
Details
BRIGHTLINGSEA THE HARD TM 0816-0916 8/62 Yacht stores/sail loft (now Sail and Steam Workshop)
- II
Yacht store/loft, now a workshop. C19. Timber framed and weatherboarded. Grey slate roof, finials to gables. 2 storeys. West face with 3 vertically boarded doors to first and ground floor, and double doors to north. East face, 2 single and 2 double vertically boarded first floor doors, 2 similar to ground floor and a vertically boarded door to north. 2 first floor gable end openings and a C20 single storey extension to north. As a limb of the Cinque Port of Sandwich much ot Brightlingsea's wealth has been obtained from the sea. Oyster dredging and cultivation known from earliest times and the main C18 industry required packing sheds and boats. There are dis-used oyster pits to east of this building, and the fishing smacks were built at Brightlingsea. Sprats were caught by stowboats i.e. smacks fitted with a long open bag net, the sprats carried in by the tide. Copperas was collected by dredging. Early/mid C19 yacht racing, cruising and building brought renewed prosperity to the town, but only a few of the buildings related to these industries remain, q.v. 8/63, 68, 69, 70, 71. Brewers Arms, GRP Mouldings, 45 Waterside, 22 Waterside, 2 and 4 Waterside.
Listing NGR: TM0900416217
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120189
- 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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