41, High Street

This building on High Street, Maldon, is a shop and offices dating from approximately 1870 to 1880. It is constructed of white Suffolk English-bond brick with stone dressings, and has a Welsh slate hipped roof concealed behind a complex parapet of moulded brick and stone brackets, featuring stone consoles with fluting on each flank. A stack with stone brackets is located on the east flank, serving as both a cornice and part of the parapet.

The building is three storeys high with a three-window facade. The second floor has three plain sash windows with segmental heads. The first floor features three similar sash windows, each with a semicircular arch above, containing spandrels of stone decorated with flat geometric bands and a rose motif. A brick string band runs across the facade above the window heads. The ground floor brickwork is painted and currently has a shop frontage with a stone dentil cornice and end consoles supporting blocks. Three openings are present; the central one has a pair of glazed doors and three stone steps leading up, while the west opening has a plain window and the east opening has a contemporary door and a sash window above a flight of three stone steps.

Two contemporary, two-storey, hipped slate-roofed blocks are attached to the rear of the building. The interior has not been inspected. The exterior presents a robust and complete commercial facade in an Italianate style.