The White House And Chaise House At The Rear

MALDON

TL8407SE SILVER STREET 574-1/6/197 (North East side) 24/09/71 No.6 The White House and Chaise House at rear (Formerly Listed as: SILVER STREET (East side) No.6 White House)

GV II

House and former coach house. C16 and C19. Timber-framed and rendered with painted brick front; main roof of L-form with gable to north-east and otherwise hipped, plain tiles; 2nd roof of plain tiles, hipped at both ends and infilling the rear to form compact rectangular block; single-storey structure to north-east with gabled plain tile roof and rear coach house has Welsh slate hipped roof with tile hips. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with cellar; symmetrical 3-window range. Front has plain parapet. 2 paired 12-pane sashes on each floor, those to 1st floor flanking central semicircular-headed sash window with radial glazing bars in upper sash; those to ground floor flanking semicircular-headed door with panelled impost blocks and Adamesque fanlight with swags to 6-panel door with 2 glazed lights over 4 raised-and-fielded panes, and stone step. Flank elevation to Cromwell Hill is of render with timber-framed parapet and has one 12-pane sash window on 1st floor with moulded surround. Ground floor has one margin-glazed sash. Large stack above parapet and very wide C17 brick stack against north gable. Single-storey part is of render with small sash in flank wall and small diamond-mullioned window in north gable. Rear elevation of main block has canted bays with flat roofs and sash windows. INTERIOR: the main L-plan range is of high quality softwood timber-framing, probably of the C18. The staircase is late C18 of one straight flight with early example of column newel, turned balusters and carved and shaped tread ends. One ground floor room has late C18 Adamesque fire surround. Fragment of earlier timber-frame to rear of north-east gable. Tall single-storey block is late C16 structure with internal serpentine wall bracing and traces of original window openings. This has a very narrow bay at north-east end

separated by a partition (now removed) of studwork with evidence for door openings. Above this, there is now a loft-like room. This high quality structure was possibly a former kitchen to an earlier front range. The coach house has angle ties at eaves level and 2 markedly cambered tie beams. Chaise House is included in the list for the first time.

Listing NGR: TL8492207130