Ardleigh Fish And Chips

TM 02 NE 6/63

ARDLEIGH, THE STREET(south side), Ardleigh Fish and Chips

II

House and shop. C16 or earlier with later additions and alterations. Mainly timber-framed and plastered with some weatherboarding. Red plain tiled roof, hipped with gablet to right of left return. L plan, one storey front shop range, external right and forward off centre left chimney stacks, rear 2-storey range with chimney stack to end C19 extension. There are four windows to road face, two are small C20 fixed and two small paned with pediments on brackets. Left return. Four C20 first-floor, five C20 ground-floor windows. Glazed C20 shop door adjacent to road and right and left C20 porches with red tiled roofs and C20 doors. Much of the interior frame is covered but the bay adjacent to the shop was originally jettied to road face and has moulded ceiling and bridging joists with run-out stops. The roof is of side-purlin construction. Pegged at ridge. Stop chamfered bridging joist in shop. C18 corner cupboard. Samuel Francis, wheelwright, lived here 1796.

Listing NGR: TM0523329466