7, Silver Street

MALDON

TL8407SE SILVER STREET 574-1/6/198 (East side) 24/09/71 No.7 (Formerly Listed as: SILVER STREET (West side) Nos.5-11 (Odd))

GV II

House, now hostel. Early C19 with earlier origins. Timber-framed and rendered with low-pitched front roof slope of Welsh slate roof with steeper rear slope of plain tiles. Roof continuous with Nos 5, 9 and 11 (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; one-window range; rear extension at right-angles with half-hipped plain tile roof. Front elevation has one 16-pane sash window on 1st floor. Ground floor is part ashlared and has one 16-pane sash window and a doorcase with flat hood on consoles to door of 2 glazed panels over 2 moulded panels and with 2 flush panels at base. Ledge of tiles at 1st-floor level. Rear extension is of black weatherboarding with sash window with central vertical glazing bar in west wall and tall thin stack. Monopitch-roofed single-storey rear extension beyond this with tall brick stack. Formerly a single-storey building with No.11 later raised to form a dwelling. INTERIOR: the rear extension has tie beam at 1st-floor level and late C17 or early C18 imposed on top with lambs-tongue-chamfered bridging joist. Possibly former outbuildings, or perhaps market stalls.

Listing NGR: TL8491307099