Gages
GAGES, 140, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123792
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Gages
- Statutory Address:
- GAGES, 140, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06549/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123792
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Gages
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAGES, 140, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GAGES, 140, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86311 19020
Details
KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8619-8719 (south-east side)
8/207 No. 140 (Gages) 21.12.67
GV II House. C16, altered in C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing NW, with axial stack at left end and external stack at rear of right bay. Long single-storey range to rear of left bay, with axial stack, and weatherboarded lean-to extension with corrugated iron roof to right of it. 2 shorter 2-storey rear wings to right, and small lean-to extension at end of left wing. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 splayed bays of C19 sashes of 8-12-8 lights. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 4 + 18 lights with crown glass. Central 4-panel door with simple moulded canopy. C20 studded door at left end. Plain parapet. Original studded partition to right of central entrance hall, inserted partition to left. Boxed axial beams. Jowled posts. Most of the frame is concealed by plaster, but in the rear wall of the left upper room is a blocked (probably unglazed) window, and one exposed curved tension brace trenched inside the studding. No access to roof. Some C18/early C19 2-panel and battened internal doors. In the ceiling of the left ground-floor room is a turned wooden vent similar to that in Lawn Cottage, Church Street (item 9/139 q.v.), but in this case, without an external vent. Abuts on no. 142 (The White House), item 8/208, at left, and on no. 138 (Peppercorn Whole Foods), item 8/206, at right. The latter was originally a crosswing of this house.
Listing NGR: TL8631119020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116514
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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