1 and 3 London Road
1 and 3, London Road, Kelvedon, Essex, CO5 9AP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171069
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 3 London Road
- Statutory Address:
- 1 and 3, London Road, Kelvedon, Essex, CO5 9AP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171069
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 3 London Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 and 3, London Road, Kelvedon, Essex, CO5 9AP
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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:
- 1 and 3, London Road, Kelvedon, Essex, CO5 9AP
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:
- TL8592618317
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 November 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 8418-8518
9/250
KELVEDON
LONDON ROAD (south-east side)
Nos 1 and 3
(Formerly listed as No. 1 (Gleethorpe) and no. 2 (Rose Cottage), previously listed as Cleethorpe and Rose Cottage)
25.6.74
GV
II
No. 1 (Gleethorpe) is wrongly shown on OS map as Cleethorpe. House, now divided into offices (no.1) and house (no. 3). Mid-C17, altered in early C19. Timber framed, plastered with facade of gault brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Comprises two parallel ranges aligned NW-SE (gable ends to street) with short central section containing stack at rear and entrance/stair hall at front, forming an almost rectangular plan.
Divided so that no. 1 comprises the left range, stair hall and part of stack, with entrance elevation to street, and no. 3 comprises the right part, with entrance elevation to south west. Extension to left of rear part of no.1, abutting on St. Osyth Cottage (item 9/249, q.v.), with vehicle entry to yard at rear. C19 lean-to extension to rear of no. 3. Inserted stacks in middle of left range and to left of right range. Two storeys and attics.
Elevation to London Road, ground floor, one C18 splayed bay of three sashes of twelve lights, one fixed light, and one C18 sash of twelve lights; first floor, two similar sashes and one C19 casement; one C19 casement in left gable. Six-panel door, in doorcase with pilasters and moulded pediment. South west elevation (no. 3) faced with gault brick, two-window range of C18 sashes of twelve lights with flat arches of gauged brick and crown glass, and blind aperture over central door. Six-panel door at front of simple porch of gault brick with lean-to roof. Chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops at both storeys; plain joists of vertical section. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates. Unjowled posts. Primary straight bracing.
Much re-used timber from a medieval hall house; the roof of the left range is wholly of smoke-blackened rafters from a crownpost or collar-rafter roof, rebuilt in clasped purlin form. Butt-edged hardwood floorboards. Dogleg stair from ground to attic in four flights, with moulded handrail, stick balusters, and on top landing five splat balusters of urn profile. Some original wattle and daub infill in internal walls.
In entrance hall of no. 1, C18 corner cupboard with fluted jambs, semi-circular arch, recessed back with domical head, and profiled shelves; and below stair, early C18 half-glazed door with nine lights, ovolo-moulded glazed bars, six panes of bullseye glass, and single lower panel, altered at bottom. No. 3 has an inserted straight stair; and in the upper hearth of the main stack a Victorian cast iron grate.
Attic of no. 1 damaged by fire in November 1986. RCHM 9.
Listing NGR: TL8592618317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116547
- 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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