Believed to date from the 1930s. 3 bed brick built bungalow
with white-washed pebble dash finish. Configured as living room with lean-to wooden extension as kitchen; 'front room'; two
bedrooms. Mains electric, gas and water. Disused well in garden; also low concrete curtain wall for Anderson shelter (excavation
filled in after hostilities). No mains drainage. Brick outbuildings: shed, coal shed and wc. Home to the Marchant family to 1965
who are believed to have purchased it during World War 2 to escape the daily hostilities of living in East London. Sold to
Basildon Development Corporation in 1965.
Active in the 1940s to c. early 1970s. The British Legion relocated to 85 Rectory Road. The building fell into a state of disrepair following various acts of vandalism and was burnt down in 1972.
1972.
Hall
Pitsea Congregational Church Hall
In January 1960 a new church hall and manse was built at Honey Pot Lane on the Fryerns estate and the Pitsea hall was sold. It later fell into a state of disrepair and was then demolished.
1) With the exception of Popes Crescent,
Burns Avenue and Rectory Park Drive, in this area of Pitsea there are no surviving properties pre-dating 1949.
