The Clock House

KELVEDON HOLLOW ROAD TL 81 NW (north side)

5/237 The Clock House 24.3.88

GV II

Service and stable range, now a house. Mid-C18, converted in C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with red clay pantiles. Main range of 7 bays facing SE, 2 storeys, with rear wing of one storey with attics at left end. External stack and lean-to extension at right end. Ground floor, 6 C18 sashes of 12 lights with flat arches of gauged brick, set back in recesses with semi-circular arches of gauged brick. First floor, 6 C18 casements with similar heads, and central casement with glazing bars forming an octagonal pattern. Crown glass. Central C20 door and doorway with rusticated jambs and semi-circular arch, set back within original arch of gauged brick. Plain band. Dentilled eaves cornice and pediment of gault brick. Hipped roof. Central octagonal wooden cupola with clock and copper dome, and octagonal bell-turret above with scrolled wooden legs and lead dome. Dentilled eaves cornice on rear elevation and rear wing also. The tithe map of 1841 shows a carriage drive to the central entrance, and 2 rear wings forming an irregular half-H plan (Essex Record Office, D/CT 196). (B.L. Kentish, Kelvedon and its Antiquities, 1974, 28-30).

Listing NGR: TL8462819547