37, Church Street

MALDON

TL8506NE CHURCH STREET 574-1/10/11 (North side) 24/09/71 No.37

GV II

House. C16 and early C17. Timber-framed with part of front of rendered brick and otherwise rendered with some imitation timber-framing. Roof of plain tiles with ridgeline lower at east end. Central stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and modern extensions to rear. Front has 2 windows with 16-pane sashes on each floor. West gable has applied imitation framing and a 4-light C20 small-paned casement on each floor. Ground floor also has a fixed window of 6 panes. The east flank has a 2-light C20 casement on 1st floor and a C20 16-pane sash on ground floor. Parallel 2-storey range with slacker-pitched plain tile roof, probably C18, to rear and C20 flat-roofed single-storey rear extension. INTERIOR: former open-hall house with service cross-wing, of C16, surviving at east end. This has soffit-tenoned floor joists, jowled posts, and evidence for service doors and central ground-floor partition. Roof is of simple collared rafter type and is of small span. East flank has repaired remains of window with hollow-chamfered mullions, rebated for glazing and mortices for intermediate small bars. Central C17 stack, much altered at base, but with remnant of mantel beam. Western part is a 2-storied rebuilding of late C16/ early C17 with substantial spine and bridging joists, all with variants of lambs-tongue stops with additional roll mouldings and scalloped decoration. Similar structure at first floor to support attic. Roof is of considerable interest having a clasped side purlin in rear slope and joggled side purlins in front slope, all of one build. The joggled side purlin was to allow for a dormer in front roof slope and the soffit of this trimming purlin is chamfered with lambs-tongue stops. This large single bay of timber-framing was 'open' at western side presumably against a now missing pre-existing cross-wing. (RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 177:16).

Listing NGR: TL8564606783