Location
(Jaggers' list)
Built 1936.
[JB] Business premises, now Post Office. Neo-Tudor. Three storeys. Three large gables with exposed timbers, presumably false. Original timber shopfronts and Tudor-style doorways.
A good example of the 'Mock Tudor' popular in the 1920s, occupying an important position looking down the High Street. The survival of the original shopfronts is rare. [JB]
ERO 1936 Designed by Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd. (owner and architect) by A. Bentley-Williams (builder). The central and right-hand gables reflect one of two earlier buildings on the same site which it replaced. See here for a photograph dating between c 1870 and 1890 which shows this building (the two gables on the left).
Interesting shop-front.
Ref. in 'Essex', Pevsner/Bettley 2007, p 288.
Nos 66-70 form a group.
Old postcard by J Jephcott.