Gages

Gages is a house located on Kelvedon High Street, dating from the 16th century and altered in the 18th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The house features three bays facing northwest, with an axial stack at the left end and an external stack at the rear of the right bay. There is a long single-storey range at the back of the left bay, which has an axial stack, along with a weatherboarded lean-to extension with a corrugated iron roof to its right. To the right, there are two shorter two-storey rear wings and a small lean-to extension at the end of the left wing.

The house is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are two splayed bays with 19th-century sash windows featuring 8-12-8 lights. The first floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with 4 + 18 lights made of crown glass. The central entrance features a four-panel door with a simple moulded canopy, while there is a 20th-century studded door at the left end. The building has a plain parapet and retains an original studded partition to the right of the central entrance hall, with an inserted partition to the left. Inside, there are boxed axial beams and jowled posts. Most of the frame is covered by plaster, but the rear wall of the left upper room has a blocked window, likely unglazed, and one exposed curved tension brace set inside the studding. There is no access to the roof. Some 18th and early 19th-century internal doors are two-panel and battened. In the ceiling of the left ground-floor room, there is a turned wooden vent, similar to one found in Lawn Cottage on Church Street, but without an external vent. Gages abuts number 142 (The White House) on the left and number 138 (Peppercorn Whole Foods) on the right, the latter of which was originally a crosswing of this house.