Chelveshayes

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CLYST HYDON ST 00 SW - 2/20 Chelveshayes GV II

House. Late C17 with a major mid C19 refurbishment, some late C19 alterations, renovated 1985. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings with extensive patching with various bricks to rear; brick stacks with tall plastered brick chimneyshafts and C19 octagonal chimneypots; purple slate roof with bands of scalloped grey slate and crested ridge tiles. Plan: 4-room plan house facing south towards the churchyard. At the left (west) end is the principal parlour with a gable-end stack. Next to it is the entrance hall which contains the main stair and was once heated by an axial stack backing onto the parlour. Right of centre is the dining room with an axial stack backing onto the second parlour or study, the room at the right (east) end which has a gable-end stack. There is a kitchen with an end stack behind the dining room in the 2-storey outshots across the rear. The main house, including the kitchen, has a C17 shell but the C19 alterations were so extensive that it is not possible to determine the layout of the C17 house. The section behind the entrance hall was rebuilt in the late C19. 2 storeys. Exterior: the front is very idiosyncratic. Tudor Gothic style. Irregular 4-window front. All the first floor windows and the right end ground floor window are late C17. They are oak-framed 3-light windows with flat-faced mullions and shallow internal mouldings but in the C19 external ovolo mouldings were applied and most contain mid C19 leaded glass with patterned and coloured margin panes. They also have mid C19 moulded stucco eared architraves with acanthus brackets under the sills. Right of centre is a small C20 casement but the other 2 ground floor windows are C19. Right of centre a 16-pane sash with a moulded stucco eared architrave like the other windows. At the left end the principal parlour has a tripartite sash with central 12-pane sash and its eared architrave has a moulded stucco architrave containing a foliate motif. It seems that this motif used the same mould as the ceiling rose inside and the moulded architrave also derives from internal cornice mouldings. The front doorway is left of centre and it contains a C19 6-panel door with panelled reveals behind a mid or late C19 porch with Gothic style detail. The eaves are carried on a series of brackets carved as acanthus leaves. The roof is gable-ended. The left gable-end contains a 12-pane sash lighting the first floor chamber. Each end has bargeboards carved with a blind fret design and openwork bargeboards carry down on the right end over the outshots. The rear includes some more late C17 casements without the stucco architraves. The late C19 bay to rear of the entrance hall is gabled and the first floor is hung with red tiles and contains a sash window (single hung and dropping into the wall thickness) with an elliptical head and glazing bars defining margin panes and Tudor arch headed lights. Interior: is essentially C19 and was carefully restored so circa 1985 with plaster cornices hand run in situ and the like. The stick baluster stair in the entrance hall has been renovated. Alongside the dining room side of the entrance hall is a late C17 plank-and-muntin screen, its elm muntins given shallow mouldings and it contains pine planks. The kitchen has a late C17 brick fireplace with a replacement timber lintel. It has a stone oven doorway and the right cheek retains a fragment of late C17 plaster rendering incised with a sgraffito pattern of rusticated ashlar. The kitchen crossbeams may be late C17; they are chamfered with scroll stops but very slender. The central section of the main block is carried on late C17 A-frame trusses. As far as can be seen the rest of the house is C19 and includes some good detail, particularly the ornamental plasterwork, the best is in the chamber over the parlour. This is a very interesting and idiosyncratic house. According to the owner it was the local doctor's house throughout the C19.

Listing NGR: ST0355701733

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