7, HIGH STREET

Details

KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8418-8518 (north-west side)

9/160 No. 7 (formerly listed 21.12.67 as No. 4, Knights Templar Terrace)

GV II

Part of inn, now a house. Late C16, altered in C18 and late C19. Timber framed, plastered with facade of yellow brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Originally a late C16 extension to the early C16 mansion to the left (nos. 1, 3, and 5, High Street, item 9/159, q.v.) which after the Dissolution became an inn, comprising one ground-floor room, to the right of it a large wagon-way (both approx. 3.70 metres high), and 2 rooms over. This formerly extended approx. one metre further forwards, now cut back to align with nos. 1, 3 and 5. Late C16 internal stack at left end, against earlier stack of no. 5, and joined to it at roof level only. Wagon-way blocked in C18, with stack to rear. 2 C18 adjacent wings to rear, with hipped roofs. C19 single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof beyond right wing. 2 storeys. Ground floor, one late C19 tripartite sash of 2-2-2 lights. First floor, 2 late C19 sashes of 2 lights. Late C19 4-panel door, and blocked overlight in stilted segmental arch with false keystone. Dogtooth band at first floor. Dogtooth cornice and plain parapet with stone coping. Hipped roof. The yellow brick facade continues part-way round the right return, and is continued as 4 courses of red bricks to one course of yellow bricks, in Flemish bond. The dogtooth band and parapet extend 1.5 metres along this return. Rear elevation, ground floor, one C20 picture window; first floor, one early C19 sash of 12 lights. On the ground floor the posts and straight bracing at the right side of the former wagon-way are exposed internally, with C18 studding behind. The studded partition between the wagon-way and the room to the left has been removed. Plain transverse beam and axial bridging beams, chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops. C20 grate. At the left side 2 brick piers support an arched wood-burning hearth above, which has a front jamb 0.61 metre wide, and a rear jamb reduced in width; chamfered mantel beam with step stops. Within the roof the flue is joined into the adjacent stack, which has 2 diagonal shafts, but rebuilt to a rectangular section before it emerges from the roof. Original C16 pointing of V-section survives within the roof, and inside the room above the hearth, a rare feature of exceptional archaeological interest, meriting special care. In the rear wall of the room over the wagon-way is a blocked window of early glazed type, with 2 ovolo mullions and 2 of 3 diamond saddle bars in situ. Clasped purlin roof. In the party wall with no. 5 the studding is exposed, with mortices in the girt for a former floor, removed for the present stair. In the rear wings, boxed transverse beams; on the first floor, cast iron ducknest grate of c.1800. The mansion to the left had become a major inn by 1604, and had been converted to tenements by 1791. The blocking of the wagon-way and the alteration of this wing to a house appears to correspond with this date (B.L. Kentish, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, 1974, 39-41). RCHM 39.

Listing NGR: TL8592018448

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Sources

Books and journals
Kentish, BL, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, (1974)

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