Boucherne

MALDON

TL8508SW HOLLOWAY ROAD, Heybridge 574-1/4/260 (North East side) 24/09/71 Boucherne (Formerly Listed as: HOLLOWAY ROAD, Heybridge Boucharnes)

GV II

House, now old people's home. Late C18 or early C19. Timber-framed and rendered with gabled plain tile roofs; ridgeline stack to north-west end and 2 stacks in central valley (?former rear wall). 2 parallel ranges with a C20 2-storey extension on north-west corner with plain tile roof at right-angles to main block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 6-window range. Front has plain parapet and 3 lead-roofed dormers each with a 20-pane sash. 1st and ground floor have 6 unequally spaced 12-pane sash windows with moulded surrounds. Off-centre doorcase with hood and fluted Doric pilasters to door of 4 raised-and-fielded panels over 2 flush panels. The south-east flank is of 2 unequal gables, the front, wider, part having C20 French windows. The rear part has a 16-pane sash window on each floor. The rear elevation has C20 pargeting and three 16-pane sashes with moulded surrounds on 1st floor. Ground floor has an off-centre door with early C19 hood, moulded architrave and door with 9 panes over 2 flush panels; also two 10-paned fixed windows and a 16-pane sash. The C20 rear extension has a black weatherboarded 1st floor and hardwood sash windows. INTERIOR: hardwood timber-frame partly exposed inside, of numerous bays. Wide entrance hall leads to main staircase in rear range, of L-plan form and cantilevered with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and shaped tread ends; the handrail at 1st-floor landing has attractive bowed projection and cusping on exposed floor edge. Service staircase between 1st and attics in front range has column balusters. South-east ground-floor room has stripped simple late C18 panelling (all timberwork has been stripped) and a shouldered fire surround architrave. Small corner cupboard possibly from elsewhere.

Listing NGR: TL8518208347