Warehouse And Workshop At Mellons Timber Yard

KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8418-8518 (north-west side)

10/177 No. 99, Warehouse and 25.6.74 workshop at Mellons Timber Yard (formerly listed as Warehouse, Mellons Timber Yard)

GV II

Warehouse and workshop. C19. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roofed with corrugated iron and red clay pantiles. 4 bays aligned NW-SE, with entrance to SW, 3 storeys, and 3 bays to NW same alignment, one storey with loft. SE elevation (to High Street), full-width band of small-pane fixed lights on ground and first floors. On second floor, moulded frame enclosing the whole storey, formerly of a trade sign. Semi-circular fixed light with moulded rim in gable. On the left return, 3 bays of the ground floor are open; plain boarded door with simple canopy in SE bay. On first floor, double loading doors, and to each side, continuous band of small-pane fixed lights. On second floor, similar loading doors, shorter band of similar windows. Low-pitched corrugated iron roof. The smaller building to the NW; has in the SW elevation, scattered fenestration on the ground floor, and a full-length band of small-pane fixed lights in the loft; half-glazed door in recessed entrance bay, and one plain boarded door; pantiled roof. In main building, bolted knees to transverse beams. Ground floor approx. 0.5 metre below the level of tarmac yard. Shown on First Edition 25" o.s. map of 1875, and apparently on tithe map of 1840 (Essex Record Office, D/CT 196). A timber business was founded on this site by Jeremiah Braddy in 1818, and remained in the family until 1964, when it was sold by William Braddy to Mellons (Essex County Standard, 15 December1978).

Listing NGR: TL8611618800