County Court and Frontage Wall with Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1994. Court building. 3 related planning applications.
County Court and Frontage Wall with Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- high-oriel-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1994
- Type
- Court building
- Address
- County Court and Frontage Wall with Gate Piers, London Road, CM9 6HE
- OS grid reference
- TL 846 070
- Coordinates
- 51.73165, 0.67253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Maldon County Court, built in 1858, is a grey Gault brick building with ashlar stone dressings and roofs hidden behind parapets. It is a large building composed of a prominent single-storey front range and a taller block to the rear.
The symmetrical front façade has seven bays, with the end bays projecting forward. A stone dentil cornice is supported by console brackets, and a central stone panel displays the Royal Arms above a stone inscription reading ‘DIEU ET MON DROIT’ in Egyptian lettering. The five central bays feature semicircular-headed double-hung sash windows recessed within semicircular arches. Each arch has a stone keystone, and a continuous moulded stone sill with a raised brick apron panel sits below. The projecting end bays have brick rustication and paired entrance doors leading to flights of three stone steps. Above, a continuous stone entablature supports a semicircular window with a rubbed brick arch, which expands to meet tall brick keystones. A tall stone-crowned stack is present on the front range.
A contemporary brick and stone frontage wall with saddleback coping is linked by low walls to two gate piers. The general design is similar to that of the courthouse in Braintree, Essex. The interior of the County Court has not been inspected.
Local climate
County Court and Frontage Wall with Gate Piers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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