Fullbridge House, Boundary Walls And Rear Yard

Fullbridge House, Boundary Walls and Rear Yard

Large house of 1827 with earlier origins, located in Maldon. The building is constructed of Gault brick, red brick and render with plain tile roofs. It is largely of three storeys with single-storey ancillary blocks, arranged in an L-plan form with the entrance facade positioned at right-angles to the street.

The south-west entrance elevation is built of yellow Gault brick with a plain parapet and plain tile roof, hipped to the south-west and gabled to the north-east with an end stack. A brick cornice runs below the parapet. The second floor features a wide tripartite small-paned sash window flanked by two 12-pane sash windows, with a row of iron tie-bar discs above the window heads. The first floor has a wide tripartite small-paned sash and two decorative cast-iron oval tie plates. All windows have rubbed brick flat arches. A string band crosses above the ground floor, which contains a central semicircular-arched entrance with stucco keystone and impost blocks, thin fluted pilasters and a radial pattern fanlight. The doors are a recessed pair of two moulded panels over two flush panels with panelled reveals. On either side are square flat-roofed bay windows, each containing two linked small-paned sashes. To the south-west is a recessed two-storey block with plain parapet and similar detailing, featuring a wide small-paned tripartite sash on each floor. A single-storey flat-roofed porch sits in the angle between the blocks. Further south-west is another single-storey matching block with plain parapet and a 12-pane sash on the front elevation. The exposed flank is canted and curves down in short steps to the red brick rear section. The roof of this block is of slate in lean-to form, concealed by front and flank parapets.

The north-west roadside elevation is similar in detail but built of pink-tinged Gault brick. It comprises two parts with a step forward at one-third of its length. The recessed southernmost part has, on the second floor, two blind recesses with orange gauged brick arches; the first floor has two 12-pane sashes and the ground floor two blind recesses. The projecting part has three small-paned casements on the second floor and three 12-pane double-hung sash windows on the first and ground floors. The roof forms a hipped M shape with lead hips and ridge, with a large stack of part red and part Gault brick rising behind the north-west parapet. The north-east elevation has flanking brick pilasters, a parapet and a square 16-pane sash on the second floor. The first floor features a blind recess and the ground floor a canted small-paned bay window with reeded angles set in red brick wall. A boundary wall to the street, linked to this section, curves down from its point of abutment and is of red brick, rebuilt on a new alignment at its north-east end.

The rear south-east part of this range has a plain parapet and is of red brick with a 16-pane sash on the second floor. The first floor has a 12-pane and a 16-pane sash with a stone plaque inscribed "REBUILT 1827". The rear elevation behind the entrance front is of two storeys with extensive plain tile roof. It is of two phases of red brick with grey headers, displaying an orderly pattern of small-paned casements and sashes. A doorcase with a hood on consoles is present. At roof level are two rendered and linked gabled blocks, and a red brick flat-roofed projecting block features a part-buried doorcase with reeded pilaster, frieze and radial motif at the corner; the door is margin-glazed above two flush panels. A yard wall linked to this section curves to form an L-plan enclosure, connecting to the adjoining bakehouse building. The yard is paved in yellow paving bricks laid on edge with some cobbles.

The interior contains substantial period detail including a simple panelled room on the ground floor in the south-east corner and a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and shaped tread ends. Recent alteration revealed substantial remains of a 17th century or earlier timber-frame within the external walls. The roofs are of typical early 19th-century king-post construction. The boundary walls were first listed on 29 September 1971.