Kings House and Cottage to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. House, cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Kings House and Cottage to Rear
- WRENN ID
- fallow-portal-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Kings House and Cottage to Rear, 16, Market Hill, CM9 4PZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 850 071
- Coordinates
- 51.73282, 0.67853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings House and the cottage to the rear are a house and attached cottage built around 1840. The structure is made of stuccoed brick and features a gabled plain tile roof, with a ridge hip on the far block at right angles at the back. There is a large Gault brick stack on the north-west side.
The building is two storeys high, with an attic and cellar, and has a three-window range. It includes a segmental-headed dormer with a two-light casement. The plain parapet has stone coping and a painted moulded stone cornice. On the first floor, there are three sash windows, each with a single vertical glazing bar and a rendered shouldered surround. The ground floor features a linked pair of similar windows with an architrave and cornice, along with a linking sill, both having segmental heads. A segmental-headed carriage arch and a moulded plinth are also present. The entrance door, located within an alley on the side, has a moulded hood/cornice on consoles made of stucco, and a six-flush-panel door with a rectangular fanlight and panelled reveals.
The rear wing has a half-hipped plain tile roof and includes 12-pane sash windows in the attic, first, and second floors, with one sash window on the ground floor. The cottage at the rear is two storeys tall, featuring a slate gabled roof and red/brown brick. The corner facing the alley is curved with corbelling above. The first floor has two 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has a 19th-century porch with boarded flanks and a 20th-century two-light casement.
Inside the main house, there is a cantilevered open-well staircase with a curved soffit, a wreathed hardwood handrail, stick balusters, and shaped tread ends. The first floor includes a marble fireplace and numerous contemporary doors, along with simple cornices and architraves.
Local climate
Kings House and Cottage to Rear 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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