Kelvedon Grange and Old Kelvedon Grange

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KELVEDON HATCH

TL50SE ONGAR ROAD 723-1/1/442 (East side) 27/08/52 Kelvedon Grange and Old Kelvedon Grange (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD ONGAR ROAD, Kelvedon Hatch Kelvedon Grange)

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Formerly known as: The Grange. 2 houses adjoining. Early C17, C18 and late C19. Timber-framed but framing now showing is all imitation, roofs peg-tiled. N-S range with various additions to the rear. Front now comprising (1) a house at the N end, 2 storeys and attics with 2 symmetrical facade gables and (2) house to S with a higher eaves level, 2 storeys. Facade has a gable at the S end. An early C17 stack with 6 diagonally set shafts bridges the 2 houses. One C19 stack at N end and one behind roof apex towards S. N house, ground floor, N-S, C20 boarded door in porch with simple lean-to hood and timber and brick sides, glazed with small leaded panes. Late C19 3-light casement window, leaded lights, 3-light casement, slightly projecting, each light with glazing bars, 2x3 panes. First floor windows, sash with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, sash with glazing bars, 2x4 panes, 2 sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. Attic, 2 casements with leaded lights. S house - ground floor, 2 sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, C19 timber and brick porch, gabled hood, front panels with pargeted panels and coloured leaded lights, outer door framed with fielded panels. Inner door 2 lower fielded panels, upper glazing, 3x3 panes, 2 sash windows, glazing bars, 3x4 panes, C19 4-light casement window and slight bay, leaded lights, coloured glass. First floor, 7 sash windows, glazing bars, 3x4 panes. All the windows except one on the front elevation of both houses are set within C18 window frames with moulded architraves. The sashes are also apparently of this date. Only the most southerly ground-floor window has a later frame. C19 2-storey bay windows facing S, casement bay windows with leaded lights and coloured glass, pargeted panels in middle register. Rear elevation has twin gabled section to S. Central jettied wing and N adjunct aligned N-S with separate gabled roof - mixed fenestration and glazing. INTERIOR: evidence of early work considerably masked but original house appears to have been early C17, 3-celled, and probably 2 storeys and attic form. The N terminal roof truss lies between the 2 facade gables of the N house. A roof partition occurs in the S house immediately above the S side of the front porch, probably denoting the length of the original central rooms. The S end of the original house was probably where the S facade gable begins. The N house ground floor has original ceiling joists in its S room, adjacent to the C17 stack. Bridging joist and flat laid common joists with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. The binding joist similarly decorated and set back well away from the fireplace. Slighter imitation joists fill in the gap between the two. A smoke bay or deep timber chimney hood may originally have occupied the space. HISTORICAL NOTE: a terrier of 1610 records the Rectory House of 2 storeys newly built. This could date the brick stack inserted into a somewhat earlier smoke void and now occupying a smaller space. The VCH (1956) records early C18 S end of central block rebuilt and roof level raised (present S house form). The windows of the W front are of this period and show the appearance of the C18 house. Further work in C19 particularly at the end, when Rev DW Peregrine spent »4000 on the house and was responsible for the new wing at the S end and the ornamental timbering, apparently a tidy version of the earlier primary braced walling beneath. The whole corpus of sumptuous refitting and addition typical of c1900 is apparently attributable to Peregrine. The S house was obviously the principal residence, the N house the servants' quarters. In 1931 the building ceased to be a rectory and was bought by Bertram Jones of Kelvedon Hall.

Listing NGR: TL5662400033

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