Cottage At Salcote Maltings

MALDON

TL80NE GOLDHANGER ROAD, Heybridge 574-1/2/239 (South side (off)) 24/09/71 Cottage at Salcote Maltings

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Cottage. C17 with possible earlier origins. Timber-framed and rendered with formerly plain tile and slate roofs, now largely stripped of cladding; tall red-brick stack behind ridgeline and smaller stump of stack towards western end. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and one-storey-and-attic. The long north elevation is of ashlared render with roof gabled to east and half-hipped to west. One-storey with attic; 2-window range. 2 gabled dormers, 2 blocked door openings, 2 blocked sash window openings and a small, low, lean-to extension. The east end of this range has a lower part of rendered brickwork. To the south of this is a later range, at right-angles, and of 2 storeys with a hipped roof. The east elevation of this range has one blocked window on 1st floor, 2 blocked windows on ground floor, 2 shallow lean-tos and a truncated stack. The south elevation has a pair of blocked windows on 1st floor over a wide, shallow, blocked window on ground floor. The west elevation of this range has metal C20 casements on each floor and a central hipped plain tile porch. Small truncated red brick stack in centre of ridgeline. The south elevation of the main range has one blocked window and remains of large, low, lean-to extension. The short west elevation here, has a blocked window on each floor. INTERIOR: the oldest part is the eastern end of the one-storey-and-attic range, which is of A-frame type and incorporates late C16 or early C17 timber, possibly reused, with a partition including adorsed arch braces. The tall stack has remnants of an inglenook fireplace. HISTORY: thought to be the premises of a C17 salt master.

Listing NGR: TL8741307811