Archaeological Standing Building Recording, Essex
Border Archaeology undertook a programme of Archaeological Standing Building Recording (to Historic England Level 2) with regards to discharging a planning condition for the demolition and replacement of an unlisted, detached house of late 19th/early 20th century date situated at Purleigh near Maldon (Essex).
In Brief
Archaeological Standing Building Recording
Location: Archaeological Standing Building Recording, EssexKey Points
- Demolition and replacement of an unlisted, detached house of late 19th/early 20th century
- Originally built in 1897 for John Coleman Kenworthy, a Christian Socialist writer
Summary
The property comprises a detached two storey house of brick, concrete and timber-framed construction and externally roughcast throughout with a pantiled roof, which was originally built in 1897 for John Coleman Kenworthy, a Christian Socialist writer and publisher who established a short-lived Utopian colony at Purleigh based on the principles of the prominent Russian author and philosopher Leo Tolstoy.
The programme of building recording (comprising a drawn, photographic and written record) identified that the lower portion of the main rectangular gabled range may well represent the original building as erected by Kenworthy in the late 1890s.
At some time between 1897 and 1922 (probably after the property was sold in 1910) the house was substantially enlarged and remodelled and the existing internal layout largely dates from this phase of reconstruction.
Results
The report was approved and the planning condition discharged, allowing development to proceed.
