Hockley - Are there any other buildings or items of street furniture which should be considered? Why?

I notice that the old school house in Church Road has not been mentioned or St Peters and Pauls Church are these out of the bounderies?

big double fronted house, to left of no.7 woodlands road ( dont know number), has a blue door.
The Bull Pub
pumphouse? colloseum type fronted building next door to the new townhouses opposite eldon way (a bit down)

Local List Consultation

The Parish Council has considered local bulidings and items of street furniture which are felt to be of local histroical or architectual importance.

Full Council on 18th April 2011 resolved that the below items should all be included in the Local List.

Members believe that the following items are definite as they have been proposed by HPC in the past and agreed with RDC:

* The Spa Public House
* Old Fire Station
* Former Hockley Primary School, 75 Main Road
* Fountain and Trough, corner of Fountain Lane
* Bullwood Hall
* 36 High Road
* Hockley House, 48 High Road
* Hockley Methodist Church
* Finger Post, Main Road

The following were previously recommended by HPC but not agreed by RDC and the parish council now ask that they be reconsidered.

* Hockley Public Hall
* Boundary Stone, Adjacent to St Nicholas, Bullwood Hall Lane
* 112 Main Road, corner of Folly Lane
* Finger Post, Junction of Church Road / Lower Road

Members note that the following sites recommended by RDC showing them as being in Hockley but in fact should be included in the Ashingdon Parish Councils List.

* The Old Forge, Greensward Lane
* Homefield Farm, Greensward Lane
* Linden Lea, Lower Road

Members also noted that The White Hart is in Hockley Parish and not as shown by RDC as being in Hawkwell Parish.

* The White Hart Public House

Hockley Parish Council ask that you review the above comments and amendments during your consideration for items to be included in the Local List.

Apply for inclusion of 6 Southend Road, Hockley in 2011 Local List of Assets.

A small planning consent does not involve the house.

No. 6 Southend Road, Hockley, SS5 4QQ

JUSTIFICATION

No. 6 Southend Road, Hockley was designed by a noted local architect and well known Southend figure, Mr David Henry Burles (1866-1942), of the firm Burles & Harris for his son in law and daughter, Mr Stanley and Mrs Violet Yeadell. The house was built in 1925.

He was a founder member of Essex, Cambridge and Hertfordshire Society of Architects and the Southend Historical Society. He made many drawings of churches and other historical buildings and gave lectures on the subject. Some of these were acquired by Southend Borough Council and have been displayed at Prittlewell Priory and elsewhere.

Several buildings he designed are on Southend Borough Local List of heritage buildings (details obtained from Conservation department):

Crowstone United Reformed Church, Kings Road, Westcliff
The Bretheren Church, Coleman Street, Southend
Castle Public House, 92 Eastern Esplanade, Southend
Cornucopia Public House, 39 Marine Parade, Southend
Southend Adult Education Centre, Ambleside Drive, Southend
23-29 Clarence Street, Southend
He also designed the former R A Jones, jewellers, High Street, Southend which is considered to have frontage townscape merit.

KEY FEATURES

No. 6 stands at the hilltop entrance to Hockley accompanied by other character houses built between 19 and early 20th century. The building and interior are unchanged apart from added central heating. It is a detached 4 bedroom, 2 reception house. The exterior is rendered, with clay tiled, hipped roof. There are two stolid, tall chimneys either side of the house. The guttering is cast iron. There are wide Crittall casement windows all round.

The main reception room extends from front to rear on the south side, with windows all round. It has a brick fireplace and tiled hearth, with inset cupboards either side. The smaller reception room on the north side also has brick fireplace with tiled hearth with inset cupboards.

There is pitch pine parquet flooring throughout the reception rooms and front hall. Doors, cupboards and staircase throughout the house are decorated pitch pine timber.

The large kitchen has pitch pine integral Welsh dresser. There is a Butler sink and the floor red tiled stone. There is a larder with timber shelves off the kitchen.

The bedrooms have cast iron fire places.

Much original furniture remains.

The garden contains a number of Victorian fruit trees and other shrubs, including an umbrella ash tree to rear, purnus and silver birch in front of the house and the north border is lined with holly trees.

ATTACHMENTS

Photographs of exterior and interior of 6 Southend Road, with some garden setting to be retained.
Obiturary history of Mr D H Burles, architect, from Southend Standard 22.10.42
Address on S E Essex churches by Mr Burles, in Southend Standard 11.01.34
Letter 1925 from Mr D H Burles to Mrs V Yeadell re 6 Southend Road
Extract on Crowstone U R Church from 'Edwardian Heyday' published by Essex Record Office.