21, High Street

MALDON

TL8407SE HIGH STREET 574-1/6/64 (North side) 24/09/71 No.21 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) Nos.19 AND 21)

GV II

Shop with offices. Early C19. Timber-framed and stuccoed with hipped slate roof concealed behind parapet. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellars (now filled); 2x2-window range. Timber painted and moulded cornice and recessed curved corner to south-east. Front to High Street has, on 2nd floor, 2 margin-glazed sash windows with moulded surrounds. The 1st floor has 2 similar windows but with projecting moulded hoods on consoles. Jetty-like overhang with curved soffit above ground floor which has a C20 shop front with tripartite subdivided glazing, pilasters, consoles, timber stall-riser and free-standing fascia; also 2 entrance doors with fanlights framing C20 window of 2 panes. Frontage to Church of All Saints (qv) has pairs of similar sash windows, on each floor and C19 shop front with fascia between large decorative consoles; recessed central entrance with margin-glazed door with fanlight flanked by elliptical-headed windows. Bressumer above supported on cast-iron columns. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: this island group represents the site of the former Moot Hill and the 'jetty' is presumably a reminder, although a fragment of an arched brace in the cellar appears to be the only structural remnant surviving.

Listing NGR: TL8490007047