Seven Winds

TL 7924 STISTED THE STREET (west side)

7/281 No. 12 (Seven Winds) 23.2.81 (formerly listed as nos. 12 and 13)

GV II

Range of 4 attached cottages, now one house. C18/early C19, altered in later C19 and 1981. Timber framed, facade of red brick in Flemish bond, remainder plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Single-span range facing NE with 2 internal stacks in front of axis. Full length lean-to extension to rear, and porch extension at right end, 1981. One storey with attics. 4 C20 casements, each with a plastered recess in the brick facade above, with a 2-centred head. 4 similar casements, each in a blocked doorway bricked up to the sill, with similar recess above. 2 C20 casements in gabled dormers. C20 door in porch at right. The original rear wall is of plastered brick to a height of approximately 1 metre, with 2 door apertures in the right half, left half missing. Light studding, primary straight bracing, nailed construction. End tiebeams halved or tenoned to wallplates, internal tiebeams lap-dovetailed but all severed for doorways. Light joists of plain vertical section; some timber re-used. 4 hearths, of which all have been altered in 1981. Originally all had segmental arches on iron strips; in 2 the arch has been replaced by an inserted mantel beam, in one the arch remains with an inserted mantel beam below; in one the arch remains intact, but the side of the hearth has been cut back and rebuilt. Shown in a map of 1823 (Essex Record Office, Q/Hi 4/39).

Listing NGR: TL7998724856