4-8, HIGH STREET

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

9/199 Nos. 4-8 (even) 2.5.53 (formerly listed as Woodlyn, Dunedin and Oakwood)

GV II

House, now staff dwellings of residential institution. C15-C16, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered with some exposed framing, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C15 3-bay crosswing aligned till-SE, remaining from former hall house with another crosswing to NE, facing street. Hall and left crosswing largely rebuilt c.1570, to form a short 2-bay middle range and a 2-bay left crosswing of exceptionally wide span, retaining a C16 inserted stack in the rear of the middle range and the framing of the left wall of the left crosswing, which is exposed externally. 2 storeys and cellar. C19 stacks in right side of right crosswing, to rear of it, and to left of left crosswing. Ancillary building of one bay to rear of left crosswing, one storey with attic. Mid-C19 2-storey lean-to extension with slate roof to left of right crosswing, with external stack to rear. C20 flat-roofed extension to rear of right crosswing. The street elevation has a full-length jetty, that of the right crosswing being slightly lower than the remainder. 4 splayed bays of late C19 sashes of 2-6-2 lights below jetty. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights in left crosswing, one in right crosswing, one of 4 + 8 lights and one small light in middle range. 2 half-glazed doors (nos. 4 and 6). 5 plain brackets partly visible below jetty. C20 serpentine bargeboards on both gables. Entrance to no. 8 in left return of rear ancillary building. Left return of left crosswing has curved tension braces trenched outside the studding, one brace severed for an inserted ground-floor window, now blocked, another severed for a C19 casement on the first-floor. The rear elevation has on the first floor one early C19 sash of 16 lights and one of 4 + 8 lights. The lean-to extension has on the first floor one original sash of 3 + 6 lights. Crown glass. In the right pitch of the rear ancillary building is a C20 casement in a gabled dormer. The interior is divided into several dwellings for staff of Grangewood, to the NE, but retains evidence of an earlier division into 3 houses. Jowled posts. The right crosswing has plain joists of horizontal section, mostly plastered to the soffits, a cambered tiebeam between the front and middle bays, an original studded partition between the middle and rear bays, and a complete crownpost roof with plain crownpost and axial bracing 65mm wide. Some original wattle and daub infill in gable walls, and possibly elsewhere. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. The soffit of the front tiebeam is covered, but there appears to have been an original unglazed window in the middle, and a late C16 inserted window of early glazed type to each side, now blocked. 2 C18/early C19 battened doors on first floor. Cellar of whitewashed bricks, apparently C16. The left crosswing is structurally of one large room at each storey, now divided, with roll-moulded axial and transverse beams (one moulding repaired) with stops carved with stars and 6-petalled flowers, joists plastered to the soffits. The roof is of clasped purlin construction, retaining the gables, principals, purlins and arched wind-bracing, the rafters replaced in softwood. In the middle range is a chamfered beam with lamb's tongue stops, and chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops; the ground-floor room is lined with C18 pine panelling, with a moulded coving. Original rebated hardwood floorboards. The roof is of clasped purlin construction; the timbers are much charred, and the rafters are replaced in softwood. This ingenious and unusual construction represents a major rebuild of c.1570. The position of the main stack indicates that formerly there was an open hall to NE of the surviving C15 crosswing, and a stack was inserted about the middle of the C16 in the left bay of it, against the rear wall, leaving the cross entry to the left unobstructed. The left crosswing would have been the service wing originally. It was reconstructed as a wider parlour/solar wing to absorb the former cross-entry of the hall, with a shortened middle range. The left wall of this crosswing may have been left undisturbed because it was the party wall of an adjacent house, now missing. The right crosswing became the service end. A rear outhouse reported by the RCHM to have original panelling cannot be identified. RCHM 16.

Listing NGR: TL8595518442

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