2 London Road with raised forecourt and boundary walls (EHER 38399)

A mid to late 18th century house, now offices, built from red/brown brick in Flemish-bond, stucco ornaments and a cornice of eroded limestone. It is two storeys on a square plan and has a plain tile gambrel roof with flat top. Internally, the central hall is accessed from Gate Street and to the left is a dogleg staircase, the most elaborate of its type in Maldon.

October 1951. Grade II* listed. A mid to late 18th century house, now offices, built from red/brown brick in Flemish-bond, stucco ornaments and a cornice of eroded limestone. It is two storeys on a square plan and has a plain tile gambrel roof with flat top. The main (Gate Street) frontage is of two storeys with attic. It has a plain parapet and two rectangular projections. On the ground floors of each projection is a window, recessed beneath a semicircular arch and with a large fleshy honeysuckle motif in painted stucco. The recessed centre has an open-pedimented Doric doorcase. The London Road frontage has two tall chimney stacks behind a parapet and a broad projecting centre with, on the first floor, three sash windows flanked by blind recesses. The ground floor is similar but with a central open-pedimented doorcase with a recessed narrow door. Internally, the central hall is accessed from Gate Street and this has a semicircular rear arch with keystone and moulded capitals. To the left is a dogleg staircase, the most elaborate of its type in Maldon. An archway to the Gate Street door is framed in similar fretwork to that of the staircase and has an ornamental keystone. All the ground floor rooms have plaster cornices and original doors and architraves. The two front rooms have marble fireplaces and a rear room has an eared architraved fireplace. There is a similar fireplace in the first floor south-east room. A raised forecourt on the Gate Street frontage, curved into London Road, is included in the listing. It has a red-brick retaining wall and stone coping with remnants of former chain railings. There are two flights of stone steps to the main door. <1>