Kelvedon Lady Mason'S Butchers

A group of buildings, originally a house, later divided into two shops and a house, with a core dating back to the 15th century, significantly altered in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and further modified in the 20th century. The construction is primarily timber framed and plastered, with sections of painted brick, and roofs covered in handmade red plain tiles and slate. The main range faces southeast, featuring an axial stack at the left end. A rear wing extends to the left featuring two 19th-century axial stacks and a single-storey extension beyond. A brick crosswing, constructed in the early 19th century, projects to the right, extending to both the front and rear, with two axial stacks and one in the rear left angle; the front is tiled while the rear is slated. A 20th-century extension with a flat roof is set to the rear of the main range, between the wings.

The main range has a 20th-century shopfront on the ground floor, with two splayed bays of small panes, a central glazed door (number 41, Kelvedon Lady), and an 18th or 19th-century moulded cornice. Above this is an early 19th-century sash window of 12 lights, and four similar sashes on the first floor, with crown glass. The front door has eight fielded panels, fluted pilasters with moulded caps, a triglyph frieze, a dentilled and moulded flat canopy mounted on a rusticated architrave with a projecting false keystone. The front pitch of the roof is notably steep, with the remainder at a more typical tile pitch. A plain parapet tops the building. The right crosswing (number 45, Mason's Butchers) features a 19th-century double shop window with a large canopy of ogee curvature supported on three arched wrought iron brackets; three wrought iron hooks which formerly supported a hanging bar are still present. The first floor has a 19th or 20th-century tripartite sash window of 4-12-4 lights. The left return of this wing has an early 19th-century sash window of 8 lights in a shallow segmental arch on the ground floor, with a 20th-century replica without an arch above. The right return has a 20th-century glazed door to the shop within a halved outer door, another halved door, and 20th-century casements, and a similar early 19th-century sash window of 12 lights on the first floor. The left side of the rear wing’s section has two similar sashes on the first floor. The roof is hipped at the front, with a standard tile pitch, and a reduced pitch for slates at the rear.

The shop of number 41 (Kelvedon Lady) retains two boxed transverse beams, a blocked hearth at the left, some painted early 17th-century oak panelling, some 20th-century reproduction panelling, and an early 19th-century stair. On the first floor, jowled posts, studs, and a curved tension brace, remnants of an earlier external wall, are exposed without infill. The roof houses the structure of a 15th-century crownpost roof at right angles to the main range, featuring a plain crownpost and axial bracing, representing a former crosswing that has been integrated into the main range. The house section between the two shops has 18th-century pine fielded panelling and boxed axial beams on the ground floor.