Mid-late 19th century workers cottages, 1-12 Stock Terrace, Heybridge (EHER 40620)

Stock Terrace is a row of twelve three-storey 'town-house' style dwellings built by the Bentall Company.

2005. Field survey. Stock Terrace is a row of twelve three-storey 'town-house' style dwellings built around the same time as Well Terrace (EHER 40619) and built by the Bentall Company. Providing accommodation on three levels, they offered greater levels of living space and were purposefully built for employees with large families, with one or two set aside as rooms for younger employees, under the supervision of a landlady. The main elevations use gault brick in Flemish bond with finer yellow brick used as sill bands and in the gauged work around the window apertures and half round arches over the main entrances. The terrace is an eighteen window range with blind windows at two window intervals, (apart from the end bays) and slightly smaller apertures to the bedrooms on the top floor. Originally the windows were vertical sashes with narrow side lights to the façade and much plainer four light sashes lighting the rooms to the rear. Unfortunately replacement of original fenestration has been extensive with few examples remaining, and notably inappropriate larger modern windows have been inserted into three of the twelve units. The slate covered roofs are gabled to the east and west and have party wall ridgeline stacks with an over-sailing dentil course. Projecting to the rear and straddling the property boundaries are single-storey gable-ended utility/toilet ranges. Most survive intact, but converted to other uses. <1>