117, 119, 119A, 121, HIGH STREET

This property comprises a house, now used as shops and flats, dating to the late 15th century. It is located in Maldon's High Street. The front of the building is painted brick in a header bond pattern, while the north-west side is weatherboarded and the rear is red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with some sections painted. The roof is tiled, hipped, with a central valley. A brick chimney stack rises from the valley, and an additional early 17th-century stack is situated behind the north-west wing, featuring a distinctive brick fin.

The two-storey building has an attic and cellar, with a three-window facade. Two dormers are visible, one with a simple two-light casement window and the other with a 20th-century eight-pane window. Dentilled brickwork marks the eaves. The first floor has three sash windows with segmental heads; two have margin glazing, and one has a single vertical glazing bar. The ground floor displays three shop fronts. The shop on the north-west has a bow window with a flat roof, moulded cornice and eight vertically proportioned panes, and a modern door opening. The central shop front was once similar, but is now a butcher's shop with a glazed-tile frontage, a large sash window, and a display cabinet. The shop on the south-east has a curved plate-glass bow window with a concealed head, partially concealed by a projecting fascia, and a door opening with a segmental brick arch and a 20th-century door with a fanlight. On the weatherboarded north-west flank, a small-paned sash window and a fixed door with a hood board supported by thin consoles are present. A pantile-roofed lean-to is at the north-west corner, and a gabled pantiled outhouse is located behind number 121. The rear elevation includes a roof light and two horizontal-sliding casements with six panes each on the first floor. A sash window and a door are also present on the ground floor rear. An outhouse with black weatherboarding and brickwork, with gabled pantiled roofs, are situated in the rear yard.

The interior originally comprised a hall house with two gabled and jettied cross-wings. Number 117 is the service-end cross-wing, with evidence of a contemporary shop front in the front bay, and one jetty bracket remains. Original features include widely spaced studs, jowled posts, and remnants of a diamond-mullioned window on the first floor rear and north-west flank, and at ground floor on the north-west flank. The original staircase was positioned against the hall partition. A cambered tie beam with mortices for braces is on the first floor, and the roof was originally hipped at the rear, with wall brace remnants on the hall wall. Number 121 was formerly a parlour, with an arch-headed parlour door, now concealed within plaster, in the partition to the hall. Number 119 features a chamfered stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops to the timber frame and a reeded fireplace surround with roundels and a mantel shelf on the first floor.