160, 160A, 162, 164, HIGH STREET

MALDON

TL8506NW HIGH STREET 574-1/9/111 (South West side) 24/09/71 Nos.160, 160A, 162, 164 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South side) Nos.160 & 160A) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South side) Nos.162 & 164)

GV II*

Shops and flats. c1400. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled plain tile roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 4-window range. No.160 has ground floor of painted brick. No.164 has central diagonal rebuilt stack and 2 hipped dormers with C20 2-light casements with central horizontal glazing bars. 1st floor of No.162 has two C20 top-hung casement windows, each with a central vertical glazing bar. The 1st floor of No.160 has 2 sash windows with moulded surrounds and central vertical glazing bars. No.162 is jettied with exposed brackets and joists and its ground floor has two C20 small-pane shop windows with bulls-eye glass and a C20 6-panelled door with 2 upper panels glazed. The ground floor of No.162 has C20 shop front of 2 large single panes, painted full-width timber fascia, recessed C20 glazed door and door to No.162. The rear of No.162 has C20 2-storeyed rendered extension with gabled plain tile roof and C20 two-light casement. Lean-to of plain tiles against rear walls. The rear of No.160 has tarred red-brick C19 2-storeyed extension with gabled pantile roof and further, single-storey extension in Gault brick with gabled pantiled roof. Also a large C20 flat-roofed extension covering most of back elevation. INTERIOR: pair of originally identical Wealden type houses of c1400, probably built as a speculative venture. Each house has a 2-storeyed 'cross-wing' with former shop in front bay of ground floor. The 1st-floor front elevation has fragments of arch-headed window, now beneath render. Single-bay hall of unusual length with remnants of hall window in No.162. This unit has C17 inserted floor in hall and inglenook stack of same date. Simple crown-post roofs with thick longitudinal bracing.

(RCHME: Essex Central and South-west: London: 1921-: 177:15).

Listing NGR: TL8546406832