50 And 50A, High Street

MALDON

TL8507SW HIGH STREET 574-1/7/81 (South side) 02/10/51 Nos.50 AND 50A

GV II

Formerly known as: No.50 HIGH STREET. Shops and offices. Early C19. Gault brick with Portland stone dressings, with slate hipped roof over front range. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with cellar; symmetrical 3-bay range; C20 flat-roofed rear extension. Front has blocking-course parapet and dentilled brick cornice. 4 giant pilasters with stone caps and bays, frame 2 wide outer bays and narrow centre bay. On the 3rd floor, there are tripartite sash windows in each wide bay, with margin glazing and rubbed brick flat arches. 2nd floor has deeper tripartite small-paned sashes. The 1st floor has 2 semicircular oriels with lead flats, small-paned sashes and pilasters with hybrid capitals. The ground floor has C19 fascia with dentilled cornice on elaborate consoles and two C20 plate-glass shop-fronts. Door to west has 4 moulded panels over 2 flush panels and blocked rectangular fanlight. On the rear elevation there is the southern half of an earlier roof taking the form of 2 plain tile lean-tos with 2 hipped dormers and a gabled dormer-like extension housing a staircase. Stump of C19 stack against rear of front range. Further 2-storey rear extension at right-angles with slate roof, rendered walls and ridgeline stack. INTERIOR: some late C17 roof framing exposed on upper floors of rear part, including butt side purlin. (RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 182:9).

Listing NGR: TL8501107007