Cinque Port Wreck House James And Stone Shipyard

SCHEDULE

BRIGHTLINGSEA

The following building shall be added:

TM 0816-0916 WATERSIDE (West Side)

8/72 Cinque Port Wreck House, James and Stone Shipyard.

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Warehouse. Late C18. Flemish bond red brick, partly rendered. Hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan aligned N-S. Two storeys. 4 bays on main facade, expressed by pilasters with elliptical arches. C20 windows; high level inserted C20 doorway in southernmost bay on east facade. Two-bay end walls have similar pattern of pilasters with elliptical arches. History: The building is called the "Cinque Ports Warehouse" in the 1829 parish Ratebook - a reference to the Status of Brightlingsea until 1811 as the only limb of the Cinque Ports north of the Thames Estuary. The Lord Warden of these ports was entitled to a third of the value of all wrecks within his area. In 1850 there had been an inscription made over the upper doorway by its owner James Argent, formerly Receiver of the Wrecks for the town also giving this title. Subsequently known as "Old Wreck House". In the late C19/early C20 it was used by the Bridges family block making concern. In 1934 taken over as part of John James Shipyard. Believed to be last example of such a wreckhouse within the former area of jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports and a rare surviving example of this type of building. (C Dove, The Liberty of Brightlingsea, 1974 and other notes 1988).

Listing NGR: TM0855416246