Comment
Local List SPD - Discussion & Consultation Document
Representation ID: 27968
Received: 04/05/2011
Respondent: The National Trust Rayleigh Mount Local Committee
Page 186
I would like Brocketts Shop considered for inclusion in the Local List.
Address: 349, Eastwood Road, Rayleigh
Description: 2-storey brick building with flat roof. Coloured brick detailing, and decorative brick and the detail over the windows. Windows have been replaced by modern. Also, unfortunate modern shop front extension to ground floor. For many years a sub-post office, now a shop.
Reasons for inclusion: I suspect it was purpose-built as a post office/general store, probably for the plot-land development planned off of Eastwood Road. Often some basic piece of infrastructure would be built (e.g. a pub or a shop) to encourage people to buy a plot of land. Sometimes the plotland estate failed to be built, but the shop remained anyway. These odd, unexpected, quirky buildings can often give us more clues to the way that our District developed than the more attractive period buildings that everyone thinks should be protected.
Page 186
I would like Brocketts Shop considered for inclusion in the Local List.
Address: 349, Eastwood Road, Rayleigh
Description: 2-storey brick building with flat roof. Coloured brick detailing, and decorative brick and the detail over the windows. Windows have been replaced by modern. Also, unfortunate modern shop front extension to ground floor. For many years a sub-post office, now a shop.
Reasons for inclusion: I suspect it was purpose-built as a post office/general store, probably for the plot-land development planned off of Eastwood Road. Often some basic piece of infrastructure would be built (e.g. a pub or a shop) to encourage people to buy a plot of land. Sometimes the plotland estate failed to be built, but the shop remained anyway. These odd, unexpected, quirky buildings can often give us more clues to the way that our District developed than the more attractive period buildings that everyone thinks should be protected.