Post Office Cottages
POST OFFICE COTTAGES, MALDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387257
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE COTTAGES, MALDON ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14734/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387257
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE COTTAGES, MALDON 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:
- POST OFFICE COTTAGES, MALDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Birch
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 94131 20805
Details
TL 92 SW
584/11/10026
BIRCH
MALDON ROAD
Post Office Cottages
II
Set of 4 monumental cottages. 1860 by Frederick Chancellor. Red brick laid in Flemish bond; plaintile roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Symmetrical east facade consists of 3 gabled elements, that to centre projecting over twin segmental doorways to shallow integral porches, and with half-timbering applied to the gable head. Within the gable head one twin 4/4 unhorned sash. 3 drop pendants to gable overhang, and bargeboards projecting beyond wall-plane with a single open collar beam and king post to apex.
Bays next to centre with one segmentally-headed triple 4/4 unhorned sash to ground floor and one straight-headed twin 4/4 unhorned sash above, with a raised gable with fish-scale scalloping. 2 yellow brick bands articulate facade. Gabled north and south end bays project, and have similar fenestration to each floor, and free gable collars with king posts rising through gable apex to form weather-vanes. Single segmental porch doorways to extreme ends of elevation. Within porches are plank doors with scrolled strap hinges and one further 4/4 unhorned sash to each porch. 5 ridge stacks alternately wide and narrow in profile.
Rear elevation to west with 4 gables stepping in and out, plank doors and twin and triple 4/4 unhorned sashes.
Late C20 single-storey extensions partly fill kitchen yards, which are closed by a high brick wall to west with a lean-to corrugated asbestos roof containing storerooms and rear access doorways to the yards. INTERIOR: 4-panelled doors. 1950s tiled fireplaces. All formerly with 2 ground-floor rooms, now only No. 1 not opened into single room under an RSJ.
Listing NGR: TL9413120805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475189
- 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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