White Oaks

TOLLESBURY HIGH STREET TL 9410-9510 (north side) 8/23 No. 10 (White Oaks) GV II

House, now bakery, hairdressing saloon and house. C17, extended in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed, with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing S, and 3-bay crosswing to right, extending to rear, with internal stack at the junction. Single-storey bakery extension to rear of left end, with large C19 baker's oven beyond, with Cl9 stack, roofed with red clay pantiles. Lean-to extension between rear wings, forming a catslide with the main roof. Small C20 extension to rear of right wing. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor, C20 splayed shop window, 2 C20 casements. First floor, 3 C20 casements. 2 C20 half-glazed doors. Modillioned cornice below eaves. Royal Exchange firemark attached to front elevation below eaves. Jowled posts. Chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section. Above right first-floor room, chamfered transverse beam with enriched lamb's tongue stops, supported on elaborately carved projections with serrated lower edges, an unusual feature in a first-floor situation. Original newel stair to attic. Clasped purlin roofs. The coal-fired oven, still in regular use at the time of survey, May 1985, is a rare feature.

Listing NGR: TL9556710450