Warehouse And Workshop At Mellons Timber Yard

The warehouse and workshop at Mellons Timber Yard is a 19th-century building located on Kelvedon High Street. It features a timber frame, weatherboard cladding, and is roofed with corrugated iron and red clay pantiles. The structure consists of four bays aligned northwest to southeast, with the entrance on the southwest side. It stands three storeys tall, while the northwest section has three bays and is one storey with a loft.

The southeast elevation facing the High Street has a full-width band of small-pane fixed lights on both the ground and first floors. The second floor is distinguished by a moulded frame that once held a trade sign, and there is a semi-circular fixed light with a moulded rim in the gable. On the left return, the ground floor features three open bays, with a plain boarded door and a simple canopy in the southeast bay. The first floor has double loading doors flanked by a continuous band of small-pane fixed lights, while the second floor has similar loading doors and a shorter band of windows.

The smaller building to the northwest has scattered fenestration on the ground floor and a full-length band of small-pane fixed lights in the loft, along with a half-glazed door in a recessed entrance bay and a plain boarded door. It is topped with a pantiled roof. Inside the main building, bolted knees support the transverse beams, and the ground floor is approximately 0.5 metres below the level of the tarmac yard.

This site is depicted on the First Edition 25-inch Ordnance Survey map from 1875 and appears to have been shown on the tithe map of 1840. A timber business was established here by Jeremiah Braddy in 1818 and remained in the family until 1964, when it was sold by William Braddy to Mellons.