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© Mr M W Keogh LRPS
IoE Number:
122997
Location:
HOCKLEY SPA ROOMS, SPA ROAD
HOCKLEY, ROCHFORD, ESSEX
Photographer:
Mr M W Keogh LRPS
Date Photographed:
11 October 1999
Date listed:
26 June 1972
Date of last amendment:
26 June 1972
Grade
II
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HOCKLEY SPA ROAD
TQ 89 SW
3/35 No. 54. (Hockley Spa Rooms)
26.6.72
- II
Pump rooms of small spa started early 1840's by Robert Clay and his wife who
discovered a medicinal spring 1838. Built to designs of John Lockyer, 1842.
Now part of a factory. The building was used as a Baptist Chapel. Stucco
faced, grey slate roof. Of 5 bays, the 3 centre bays break forward. Heavy
moulded cornice and parapet. 4 Tuscan pilasters to centre bays. 1:3:1 tall
windows with semi-circular heads and glazing bars. Central parapet panel with
title Hockley Spa. Later glazed brick extensions with corrugated iron roof to
left bay. Right rear return with 5 Tuscan pilasters, moulded pediment and
blocked semi-circular headed window. A C20 factory extends to rear and right
and a C19 red brick house to left.