Sailmaking Loft (EHER 34255)

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19th century boat builders workshop/sail loft.

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Grid reference	TM 0845 1631 (point)
Civil Parish	BRIGHTLINGSEA, TENDRING, ESSEX

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Listed building description A two storey boat builders workshop/sail loft, dating to the 19th century. It was timber framed and weatherboarded and was built on a brick plinth. It has a grey slate roof, gabled to road. It had double vertically boarded doors to left with similar doors over to first floor. Right vertically boarded door. Large transomed four light first floor window and four light window to ground floor. Hoist pole to gable. It is still in use as a boat building workshop. q.v. 8/62 Sail and Steam, The Hard. <1>.

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--- SEX56253 Photograph: Essex County Council. 1970-1993. ECC Historic Buildings Photo Print Archive. 1 frame, 1/1986.
--- SEX65104 Desk-Based Assessment: CPM Environmental Planning and Design. 2002. Former James and Stone Shipyard, Brightlingsea, Essex: Archaeological Desktop Assessment.

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