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

Rayleigh Lodge situated in The Chase should be included in the list. The building and surrounding area has a history that goes back many centuries and therefore is of great historical importance to the town.

I think that the Dutch Cottage in Crown Hill is a building that should be included in the LHA list if it is not already included under another heading. It is clearly an historical and unique building in this area.

Why not include the two unusual, oval shaped, pillar boxes in the High Street? (One opposite the Half Moon, the other near the memorial.) These each have two slots for posting mail. I do not know of any others of the same design in the Rochford area.

1. The crown public house is surly of historical interest to Rayleigh
2. The water trough and marters monument in Rayleigh High street is part of Rayleigh history
3. Should the small group of cottages at the top of London Hill as it enters the high street be included as they are very much part of Rayleigh history and the street scene?

318 Eastwood Road - very distinctive cottage
2 & 4 Marine Ave - art deco style - representative of its type
10 Trinity Road believed to have been built in 1894 - good example of its type
49 Downhall Road - detached cottage styloe chalet - individual style #
89 Downhall Road - very distinctive
25 Crown Hill - This 2 storey brick building was the original house of the Gas Light and Coke Co dating from cica 1850 - is of significant local historic significance

3 Great Wheatley Road - Is of local historical significance. Housed soldiers in WW1 and connected with the Peculiar People religious group
12 Station Road - Detached shop/office building opposite station
Medical Centre, Eastwood Road - Built in 1930's - distinctive and one of only a few properties of this age in town
Cedar Centre - The 1st Rayleigh Fire station building and as such of local historical significance
75 High Street - The building is situated in the Rayleigh conservation area. Although the ground floor has been altered the 1st floor is a building of local historic significance

75 High Street - the building is siutated in the Rayleigh conservation area. Although the ground floor has been altered the 1st fllor is a building of local historic significance
105-111 High Street - Built in 1881 - The building is situated in the Rayleigh conservation area and is of significant local historic interest
2 Eastwood Road - This 2 storey brick building - This building is situated in the Rayeligh conservation area and is of local significance as it is the last one remaining in this area
41-67 Lower Lambricks - These buildings are all that remain of the Brickfields on the site to include the cooling tunnels - Planning permission sought in 1998 and 2010 for 10 houses (outline)

Hockley Road - Lych gate of Rayleigh cemetery - of significant local historical interest.
Outside Crown Public House - disused post box - the post box is situated in the rayeligh conservation area and is a rare remaining one of its type
London Road junction with Victoria Aven - Although the milestone is believed to be a replacement of the original it is of significant local historical importance
London Road, 1 outside no 30, rayleigh ordnance survey grid ref nos. TQ80310/91415, 2 others in front of fence of Sweyne Park School. 2 in front of fence of Glebe school - all in same proximity.

Arterial Road - This post marks the boundary between Southend on Sea and the Rayleigh Urban District Council - This is a rare example and is of significant local historical interest
Evangelical Church - Built in the early 1920's - the church was the first in Rayleigh for the Peculiar people as and such is of significant local historical interest
58 Hockley Road - Scandinavian style chalet built early 1960's - only one of its type in the town
63/65/67 Rayleigh Avenue - attractive terrace of period properties
38 Hollytrees - An example of a distinctive local "byford" built property - very clean and well looked after

This comment supersedes comment yesterday on 12 station road.

12 Station Road - detached shop/office building opposite station - Distinctive style in this area and of great local historical value

Medical Centre, Eastwood Road - Built in 1930's - Distrinctive and one of only a few properties of this age in town

Brocketts Shop, 349 Eastwood Road, Rayleigh

Further to my earlier suggestion that this building should be considered for inclusion in the Local List, I have since come across a map of Rayleigh dating back to the mid 1920s which shows it as being a post office at that time.

The roads off of Eastwood Road in that area, (such as Lancaster Road, Connaught Road and Clarence Road) are on the map, but there are very few houses - so it must still have been plotland then.

In a way, it represents a lost period in Rayleigh's history. To have a post office stuck out in what was then a relatively sparsely populated area, so far away from Rayleigh High Street, suggests that when it was built there must have been an expectation that it would soon be serving a fast growing community.

'The Chestnuts', 125 High Road, Rayleigh

I am not suggesting this building should be included in the Local List, but the Council does need to take some action over it. As you come off the A127 into Rayleigh, from the Weir, this is the first building you see. It has been boarded up and neglected for many, many months. It creates an impression of dereliction for anyone coming into Rayleigh.

The Council should seek to ensure that it is brought back into residential use.

In the past, I think the building belonged to Rochford District Council - for all I know, it may still do so. In any event, it should not be too difficult to find who the current owner is.

First impressions count for a great deal, and the first impression people get of Rayleigh should not be a derelict house.

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I would like colonial house to be considered for inclusion in the Local List.

Address: 62, High Street, Rayleigh.

Two storey red-brick building with a slate roof. Originally built in the style of a colonial tea-planters house, now enlarged with two modern side extensions.

Reasons for inclusion: one of the most idiosyncratic houses in the Rochford District. Everyone who passes it is struck by its unusual design. The modern extensions have been quite sympathetically done, and do not detract from the attractiveness of the building.

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I would like the British School to be included in the Local List.

Address: Adjacent to Baptist Church, High Road, Rayleigh.

Description: Former school, now a church hall, built 1863/4. Red brick building with slate roof. Probably original windows.

Reasons for inclusion: Mainly its history, as part of the provision of pre-state education schools in Rayleigh.

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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.