Kelvedon Hall

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KELVEDON HATCH

TL50SE KELVEDON HALL LANE 723-1/1/434 (West side) 27/08/52 Kelvedon Hall (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD ONGAR ROAD, Kelvedon Hatch Kelvedon Hall)

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Country house. c1743. For John Wright. Restored late C18 and 1937-8 by Lord Gerald Wellesley and Trenwith Wells. Red brick, Flemish bond, lead roof. Central 3-storeyed rectangular block with two 2-storeyed pavilions set forward on each side, linked to central block by curved walls, creating a U-shaped group. EXTERIOR: central block 7 bays, arranged 2:3:2, outer section articulated forward slightly. Moulded cornice at base of parapet and 2 string courses, upper one moulded. All windows have plain reveals and flat window heads with gauged brick voussoirs and all are sashes with thin glazing bars, ground floor and first floors 3x4 panes, second floor 3x2 panes. Central doorcase with attached Tuscan columns, pediment and frieze with rosettes in the metopes and semicircular fan light. Door with 3x2 pane glazing and lower panel. Pavilions with 3 windows range on inner face with exposed flush frames and thick glazing bars. Outer NE fronts have 2 window range but all false with painted glazing bars and panes. Ground floor 3x4 panes set in depressed arches, first floor oval with painted glazing bars. Roofs hipped, peg-tiled, each with a turret and open arched, ogee domed cupola. SE turret has a clock. NE turret a weather vane. Curved walls each have a central door and 3 first floor windows, 3x4 panes, painted in except for 2 real ones on N side. Rear SW garden front of 7 bays, 2:3:2, central section articulated forward with simple pediment, moulded cornice below parapet and moulded string course between first and second floors. Central porch, flat headed of Adam style on plain columns, fluted capitals and a frieze with fluting and paterae with dentils. Glazed door with glazing bars, 3x2 panes and similar glazed fan light. Windows as front. Side wings, single storey, N wing with 3 false painted windows, 3x4 panes, set in depressed arches. Parapet with slightly recessed ends. S wing similar, but real windows. Both wings with stone moulded cornice and stone coping. Ball finial on each end. INTERIOR essentially original. Entrance hall with 7 doors leading off, each with dentilled pediments and panelled reveals. Rooms have good C18 features, especially the dining room with Adam style division of serving end (transverse beam and 2 in antis columns). Roundel of Ulysses and Penelope over fireplace. Adam style decoration in other rooms e.g. drawing room. Stair hall also late C18 style. The house contains a chapel (the Wrights were a Roman Catholic family) and the study has a ceiling with grotesques and putti painted on cloth and applied. The Wright family had the property for 10 generations until 1822. Kelvedon Hall, the Lodge (qv), the stable block (qv), the orangery and garden wall (qv) form a group. (Morant P: The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex: 1768-: 185; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Essex: 1965-: 255; Cowan J: Kelvedon Hatch Revisited and the Wrights of Kelvedon Hall: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TL5584800030

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 185
Morant, P, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, (1768), 185
Cowan, J, Kelvedon Hatch Revisited and the Wrights of Kelvedon Hall, (1986)

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