Kelvedon Labour Club

Kelvedon Labour Club is a former parish workhouse that has been converted into a club with an attached cottage. It dates from the early 17th century and was extended in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and clad with painted brick, plaster, and some weatherboarding, topped with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. It has four bays aligned northwest to southeast, positioned at right angles to the road, with a rear stack and one internal stack. A crosswing from the 18th century is located at the front, along with two wings that extend forward. There are stacks at the rear of the left wing and to the left of the right wing, along with a complex series of 20th-century extensions to the left, rear, and right.

The building is two storeys high with attics. The front elevation features two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights on the ground floor, and on the first floor, there is one similar sash and one with 4 + 8 lights, in addition to later 19th and 20th-century casements. A 20th-century door is set in a porch with fluted pilasters and a flat roof. The roofs are hipped at the front. Inside, there are chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section, which are jointed with soffit tenons that have diminished haunches, present in both storeys. The attic retains original rebated hardwood floorboards and features an original clasped purlin roof with arched collars, with some wattle and daub infill in the rear gable, which is weatherboarded externally.

In the attached cottage to the front left, one ground-floor room is fully lined with tongued-and-grooved and beaded softwood boarding, dating to around 1900. The parish workhouse was closed when its functions were transferred to Witham Union shortly after the Poor Law (Amendment) Act of 1834, and in 1837, the building became the Kelvedon Labour Club.