Hall Cottages

TL 80 NE, 574-1/2/244

MALDON, HALL ROAD, Heybridge (south side (off)), No. 3, Hall Cottages

02/10/51

GV

II

House, part formerly barn. Mid to late C14 and C18. Timber-framed and black weatherboarded with plain tile roofs with large C20 red-brick stack.

EXTERIOR: single storey with attic, with 2-storey cross-wing to north. Gabled and jettied cross-wing has two original jetty brackets exposed and a 2-light small-paned horizontal-sliding casement window on first floor and two 6-pane windows on ground floor. Lower range has one hipped dormer with 12-pane horizontal-sliding casement window and two similar windows on 1st floor. Ground floor has one small-paned horizontal-sliding casement window, one 6-pane window and plain door. North flank of cross-wing has one similar window on ground floor. Rear of cross-wing has hipped roof with gablet and large exposed C20 red-brick stack. The first floor has two horizontal-sliding casement windows as front, and a similar window under. Rear of lower range has three hipped dormers, as front in all detail, and ground floor has door and four horizontally proportioned small-paned horizontal-sliding casement windows and a small window. South end gable has a 2-light small-paned horizontal-sliding casement window in gable and a door.

INTERIOR: cross-wing of the mid to late C14 with crown-post roof with very substantial longitudinal braces. Former parlour/solar with door at rear of hall partition and centre-tenoned floor joists. Was originally one room on each floor and central chamfered and cambered tie beam has one surviving heavy brace. One curved wall brace survives and evidence for original windows. Floor was raised up following decay of lower parts, but remains in relocated position. Lower block seems to be former barn of C18 and is of three bays of good quality framing with central (uncut) tie beam with hanging knees. (RCHME: Essex North-east: London: 1922-: 138:4).

Listing NGR: TL8589507685