Page 2 continues the guide to Basildon's listed buildings and structures, including the New Town centre, Vange, Laindon, Langdon Hills and Nevendon.
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Brooke House shows that Basildon's protected architecture is not limited to ancient buildings. The 14-storey block was built between 1960 and 1962 to designs by Anthony B. Davies, chief architect and planner to Basildon Development Corporation, with Sir Basil Spence acting as consultant adviser on the town centre. Raised dramatically above the ground on reinforced-concrete V-shaped supports, it was intended to provide a strong vertical landmark above the otherwise low-rise shopping centre. Brooke House was listed in 1998.
Town Square, Basildon
The raised pool and sculpture beside Brooke House form part of the original New Town centre composition. Dating from 1962, the long raised pool was designed as a foreground to Brooke House. At its eastern end was the bronze Mother and Child sculpture and fountain by Maurice Lambert. The structure was listed in 1998 as part of the important group of New Town features around Brooke House.
East Square, Basildon
The architectural treatment of East Square is itself protected. The listed elements include retaining walls, ramps, steps, staircases, a bench and raised paving. They were designed as part of the town-centre composition associated with Brooke House and demonstrate how Basildon's planners treated the spaces between buildings as an important part of the New Town design.
Paynters Hill, Vange
These two early 19th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded cottages stand at the eastern end of Paynters Hill. According to the official listing, they are said to have been built using old timbers from the former rectory when it was demolished in 1836. The cottages are two storeys high and retain the character of Vange before modern development transformed the surrounding area.
London Road, Vange
The Five Bells is an early 18th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded building with later additions and 19th-century alterations. One of its additions was formerly used as a forge. Its survival on London Road provides another link with the historic village of Vange and the period when the road was an important route through the settlement.
Bells Hill Road / Hawkesbury Bush Lane, Vange
Hawkesbury Manor is a mid-to-late 18th-century house. It is timber framed and weatherboarded beneath later rendering and has a double-pile plan with hipped tiled roofs. Historic England's record notes surviving features of its original construction and an entrance on the principal elevation framed by a classical Tuscan surround.
Pound Lane, Laindon
Doves Farmhouse is an 18th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded farmhouse. The original north front has a symmetrical three-window arrangement and central doorway, while later additions changed the building on its southern side. It survives as evidence of the agricultural landscape that existed around Laindon before New Town development.
Homestead Drive, Langdon Hills
Westley Hall is an 18th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded house with later additions. The building has sections of two and three storeys and sash windows associated with later alterations. It is one of the surviving older houses of Langdon Hills.
Nevendon Road
Nevendon Manor, formerly known as Little Bromfords, is a 16th-century timber-framed house, although documentary evidence records a manor on the site much earlier. The present building has an L-shaped plan, an original chimney stack with grouped diagonal shafts and surviving historic internal features. Remains of a moat also survive around the site.
Old Nevendon Road
Fore Riders is a small 16th-century timber-framed house, altered in the 18th century and later periods. It is now weatherboarded and retains exposed timber framing internally. Historic England also records the remains of a moat at the site.
Laindon Common Road, Little Burstead
Coopers Cottage originated as a late 14th- or early 15th-century Wealden house and is now arranged as a pair of cottages. Although later alterations have changed its appearance, much of the historic timber frame survives. It was added to the statutory list in 2006.
Laindon Common Road, Little Burstead
The Elms is another listed building on Laindon Common Road. It was first listed in 1975 and forms part of the surviving historic building stock on the northern side of the wider Basildon area.
Note: The National Heritage List is the authoritative record for statutory designation. Individual entries can be amended, renamed or updated, so this page is intended as a readable Basildon.info guide rather than a substitute for the official list.