152, High Street

KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8619-8719 (south-east side)

8/213 No. 152 25.6.74

GV II

House, now shop and house. C15 or earlier, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles and slate. Main range facing NW, with stack at right end in front of axis. Rear wing at left end, with external stack to left. 2 lean-to extensions to rear of remainder. Main range and left wing of 2 storeys, lean-tos of one storey. Ground floor, early Victorian shopfront with 2 windows each of 20 horizontal panes, with central glazed double doors and overlight; 4 pilasters and scrolls below fascia, which has 2 wreaths of bay leaves and 2 bunches of grapes carved in relief. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. Plain parapet. Main roof tiled, rear pitch raised to a low angle. The left return has a shop window of similar date and style, of 10 horizontal panes with pilasters, scrolls, and fascia with 2 wreaths; the remainder of this wall roughcast in panels. The rear wing has a low-pitched hipped roof of slate. The rear elevation has on each floor one early C19 sash of 12 lights, the upper with louvred shutters, and a C20 glazed door. Lean-to roofs tiled. Early Victorian cast iron grate in large wood-burning hearth at right end of shop. Cambered tiebeam, crownpost roof.

Listing NGR: TL8636219078