Description

KELVEDON ST. MARY'S SQUARE TL 8418-8518 (south-west side)

9/263 Newnan's 25.6.74

GV II

Parts of 2 houses, combined. C15, altered in early C17, C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. At left, 2-bay hall with C18/19 stack in right bay in front of axis, and parlour/solar bay to right (service bay demolished). To right, 3-bay crosswing extending to rear, formerly part of another hall house to right, now Top House (item 9/259, q,v.). To rear of left house, C20 2-storey extension with flat roof, and to left of it, small C19 single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof. C20 single-storey extension to rear, in angle to left of crosswing, with hipped tiled roof. 2 storeys. 5-window range of C20 sashes in C18 style. Central 6-panel door with plain overlight in panelled doorcase with flat canopy on paired brackets. At left end, C20 gate to recessed door. Plain parapet. The hall of the left house has at the right end curved display bracing and a blocked parlour doorway with mortice for former draught screen. Early C17 inserted floor comprising widely-spaced longitudinal joists of vertical section, chamfered with lamb tongue stops. C20 grate. Cambered central tiebeam, cross-quadrate crownpost with 3 of 4 rising braces in situ, and at the left end, 2 curved down-braces from crown stud and one axial brace, all heavily smoke-blackened. Walls raised approx. one metre. The parlour bay has the original floor of plain joists of horizontal section, with alterations. To the right is an area of disturbed framing, possibly originally a passage between the 2 houses, and the service crosswing formerly associated with the other house. Chamfered binding beam morticed for a former partition between the service rooms; plain joists of horizontal section. Crownpost roof with axial bracing, complete. At the right side are twin service doorways, blocked by a stack beyond, of which the lower halves have been cut off for the fireplace. At the time of survey, November 1986, this house had recently been combined with Top House, to the right, item 9/264 RCHM 7.

Listing NGR: TL8592018374

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