26-30, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1337621
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: 26-30, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 26-30, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2002-03-28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1337621
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: 26-30, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 26-30, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 26-30, 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 85996 18524

Details

KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8418-8518 and (south-east side) 8618-8718

9/202 and 10/202 Nos. 26-30 (even) 25.6.74 (formerly listed as No. 28 (Lahana) and Tenement adjoining No. 28 (Lahana)

GV II*

House, now shop and 2 houses. C15, altered in late C16, C18, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing NW with late C16 stack in right bay against front wall. 3-bay crosswing to right, extending to rear, C20 single-storey lean-to extension to rear, and C20 stack to rear left. 3-bay crosswing to left, extending to rear, with C19 external stack to left, C17 external stack to rear, enclosed by C18/19 one-bay extension. 2 storeys and cellar. Ground-floor, C20 double-bayed shopfront under jetty of left crosswing with central glazed door, one C19 and 2 C20 casements. First floor, one C19 sash of 4 lights, 2 C19 casements, one C20 casement. 4-panel door with moulded flat canopy (no. 28), C20 door in right return (no. 26). The left crosswing has plain joists of horizontal section, a stair through the original stair trap, an early C17 wood-burning hearth with chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stop, reduced in width, jowled posts, and complete crownpost roof with axial bracing. In the right side of the rear bay is a window of early glazed type, now blocked, with 2 saddle bars and mutilated original mullion. Original rebated hardwood floorboards. The hall has a wood-burning hearth with C20 arch, and an early C16 inserted floor 2.59 metres high comprising an axial beam, bridging beams jointed into it, and longitudinal joists supported on pegged clamps, all richly moulded with converging stops. The central crossing is ornamented with geometrical chip carving in the form of 4 roundels and a 6-petalled flower, a rare feature in buildings, although found in contemporary furniture. Original rebated hardwood floorboards. The roof of the hall has been raised approx. one metre. Part of the right (high) end of the hall is incorporated with the right crosswing as no. 26; the transom of the unglazed window in the rear wall of the hall, a parlour doorway 2.28 metres high with 4-centred doorhead, and beside it, an original draught screen of V-edged vertical boards set in square grooves, a rare survival. The right crosswing comprises 2 long and one short bays, with an underbuilt jetty at the front, a blocked unglazed window at the rear, a cambered tiebeam, and probably the original roof, although difficult of access. Wood-burning hearth reduced for C20 grate. RCHM 18.

Listing NGR: TL8599618524

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.