Chase House

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

9/161 No. 9 (Chase House) 21.12.67

GV II

House. C18, altered in C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing SE, with 2 rear stacks symmetrically arranged. 2 rear wings and narrow wing between them, completing a rectangular plan. C20 single-storey extension with hipped roof to rear right. 2 storeys. 5-window range of late C19 sashes with marginal lights in original apertures with flat arches of gauged brick. Central 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, plaster pilasters and projecting false keystone, moulded flat canopy. Plain band at first-floor level. Moulded eaves cornice. Roof hipped. Symmetrical elevation. Railings of wrought and cast iron are attached to the house at both ends, mounted on dwarf wall of red brick in Flemish bond, forming boundary with street, with central gate. Simple spearpoints, 4 round cast iron stanchions with finials at front, and one at each end. Gate all of wrought iron, with arched stay at bottom. Height overall approx. one metre. In the left return is a blocked doorway, and no other apertures. The rear elevation has on the ground floor 2 early C19 sashes of 12 lights; and on the first floor 2 similar sashes, 2 more of C18 date, and a central Venetian sash. Crown glass.

Listing NGR: TL8592818465