The Constitutional Club and Shops
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB AND SHOPS, GREAT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338263
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Constitutional Club and Shops
- Statutory Address:
- THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB AND SHOPS, GREAT SQUARE
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- Date:
- 2001-05-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/01754/33
- Rights:
- © Mr B.A.A. Gray. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338263
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Constitutional Club and Shops
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB AND SHOPS, GREAT SQUARE
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:
- THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB AND SHOPS, GREAT SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75775 23096
Details
GREAT SQUARE 1. 885 (East Side) BRAINTREE The Constitutional Club and shops TL 7523 1/101 25.10.51. II* GV 2. An Cl8 red brick front with a parapet and rusticated quoins to a C16 timber-framed and plastered house. Originally it was built on an L shaped plan but was added to in the C18 to make a rectangular plan. 3 storeys. 7 window range. The centre window is a 3-light bay rising through the 1st and 2nd storeys. The inner flanking windows are blocked. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, in plain reveals with keystones. The ground storey has 2 C20 shops on the north amd south ends and the centre part is C19 with a 6-panel door with rusticated brick pilasters, a rectangular fanlight with radial glazing bars and a concrete canopy with ornamental iron railings. The east (garden) front is timber-framed and plastered, with a jettied 1st storey and 3 jettied gables on moulded bressumers. The windows are metal casements with leaded lights. A 6-panel door with raised and fielded panels has a frieze with fret ornamentation and a cornice. Roofs tiled. RCHM (45).
The Constitutional Club and the House and shop occupied by Cameron Chemist form a group with No 23 and Hill House, Market Place.
Listing NGR: TL7577523096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113738
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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