Tubbeswick
TUBBESWICK, MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389621
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Tubbeswick
- Statutory Address:
- TUBBESWICK, MILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389621
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Tubbeswick
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUBBESWICK, MILL 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:
- TUBBESWICK, MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Myland
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 99145 27700
Details
584/0/10048 MILL ROAD
14-DEC-01 (South side)
Tubbeswick
II
House. c. 1750. Red brick laid in Flemish bond; plaintiled and slate roofs.
PLAN: lobby-entrance.
EXTERIOR: south front of 2 storeys; 5-window range. Symmetrical. 6-panelled central door, the upper 2 panels glazed, set within timber doorcase with flat hood. One blind window either side under segmental arches and one 8/8 unhorned sash to each of outer window bays. First floor alternates between 3 6/6 unhorned sashes and 2 blind windows. Coved and plastered eaves cornice. Central ridge stack. One brick (left of first-floor west window) inscribed HDF/ 1752 (Hannah De Foe).
North elevation presents 2 projections, that to east gabled with a slate roof, that to west hipped with machine tiled roof. East projection with single-storey outshut to east side. North front with one plank door, one 2/2 unhorned sash and one 2/2 horizontally sliding sash. One segmental-headed casement to attic with glazing bars.
West projection recessed: plank door to east of an 8/8 unhorned sash under a segmental gauged skewback arch. First floor rebuilt c. 1920 in stretcher bond brick reusing a 6/6 unhorned sash. Stack on main wall plane, rebuilt C20.
West return with one 6/6 unhorned sash to each floor.
INTERIOR: 4-panelled doors throughout. East ground-floor room with 2 chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops. Late C19 marble chimneypiece in north wall. Passage west of stack leads to service rooms. Winder staircase north of stack. Similar bridging beams in passage and ground floor west room, the latter with a second late C19 marble chimneypiece.
Kitchen (north-west extension) with tall fire opening for a range. Opposite is a pantry.
North-east extension with an early C20 boiler.
First floor rooms plain, with spine beams as before. Roof timbers plastered.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was leased by Daniel Defoe on 6 August 1722 at o120 per annum for 99 years, and subsequently rebuilt for his daughter Molly Defoe.
SOURCE: Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of Colchester, 1768, Book II, p. 734
Intact mid-C18, lobby entrance house with all features intact and historical association with Daniel Defoe.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morant, P, The History and Antiquities of Colchester, (1768), 734
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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