Maldon House And Attached Railings

Maldon House is a late 18th-century house, altered around 1870-80. It is located in Bridgwater and comprises a central 2-unit block with a lower, parallel range added in the mid-19th century to the rear. The house is constructed of Flemish-bond brick with stone copings, moulded kneelers at the rear, stepped voussoirs to the first-floor front, cills, a platband and a doorcase. It has pantile roofs, a steeply-pitched mansard to the front, a pitched roof to the rear, and brick stacks to the gable ends. The front elevation has a 5-window range. First-floor windows have flat arches with stepped voussoirs and 6/6-pane sashes. The entrance has a double, late 19th-century two-panel door set within a moulded architrave with a cornice, beneath a hood on wrought-iron brackets. Flanking the entrance are two-storey, late 19th-century canted bays to the basement and ground floor, with hipped slate roofs, a modillion cornice, and 2/2-pane sashes. A small, 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension projects to the left return and is level with the rear block on King’s Place, which has one 2/2-pane sash window to the ground floor. The mansard gable has flat concrete arches to two small, 20th-century windows flanking the stack. The rear of the original block features a semicircular stair turret constructed of header-bond brick, with a conical roof, possibly concrete, reaching the ridge level. This rear section has timber lintels to 6/6-pane sash windows on the upper floors and a brick dentil band at eaves level. The rear of the 19th-century block displays a 3-window range with stepped stone voussoirs to the first floor; a small 19th-century plate-glass sash window is on the left and 6/6-pane sashes are on the right. The interior of the house was not inspected. Contemporary with the building are pointed, cast-iron railings with trellised panels, in three stages, sweeping from the right, up the steps to the door, and curving back to meet the lean-to on the left. There are three gates below the top rail: two flanking the steps and one on the far left. The railings flanking the steps have scrolls attached to the verticals.