10, Church Street

TOLLESBURY CHURCH STREET TL 9410-9510 (west side) 8/14 No. 10 GV II

House. C18, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, brick facade, all plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing E with central stack, originally forming a lobby-entrance, now blocked. Original rear wing, forming a T-plan. C18/C19 extensions in both rear angles. Extended to left by one bay in C19, with C20 extension to rear. One storey with attics. 3 C20 sashes of 12, 16 and 16 lights respectively in late C18 style, and 3 similar sashes of 12 lights in lean-to dormers. 2 C20 doors. Gambrel roof. Dentilled course below eaves at front. Chimney shaft cement-rendered. Transverse beams of softwood, of vertical section, chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. One original window of 20 fixed lights, with crown and bull's-eye glass, now in internal wall, not in its original position. Major renovation in 1965; old photographs show it as a shop and 2 cottages. A conveyance of 5 December 1884 between William Walford, grocer, and his son of the same name, draper, describes it as a 'brick built messuage ... divided into and used as two several tenements and a shop many years ago built by Henry Ray upon the site of an old messuage pulled down by him theretofore standing upon a certain rood of land there commonly called the Guildhall'.

Listing NGR: TL9558910397