Joyes Lavenders

KELVEDON ST. MARY'S SQUARE TL 8418-8518 (south-east side)

9/267 Lavenders and Joyes 25.6.74

GV II

House, now divided into 2. Late C16, altered in C17, C18 and late C19. Timber framed, plastered with late C19 facade of yellow brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing NW;, with C16 stack in left bay against front wall, and C18 external stack at right end. 2 storeys, cellar and attics. C18 2-storey lean-to extension along full length of rear, forming a catslide with the main roof, and C18 2-storey rear wing with hipped roof, forming a T-plan. C19 single-storey lean-to extensions to left and rear of left rear corner, slated at the rear. C20 porch with tiled hipped roof in right rear angle. C20 single-storey extension of yellow brick at left end. 3 window range of late C19 casements, of 2 lights in the left part (Lavenders), and 3 lights in the right part (Joyes). 3 late C19 casements of 2 lights in gabled dormers. 2 late C19 5-panel doors. Stone lintels over front windows and doors, with dogtooth ornament on the soffit chamfers. Dentilled parapet. Half-hipped gambrel roof. The left stack of red brick rebuilt with yellow brick at the top. The right stack of red brick has tumbling courses at each reduction. Chamfered binding beams and axial bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops. Some exposed studding in rear wall of original house. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Walls raised 0.79 metre in C17, with face-halved and bladed scarfs in upper wallplates. Chamfered tiebeams and bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of square section above first floor. Primary curved bracing in raised part of walls. Exposed wattle and daub in one cross-wall on first floor, in original build and in raised section. Exposed within first floor of Joyes, in front wall, window of early glazed type complete with one ovolo mullion and 2 diamond saddle bars, blocked externally, a feature meriting special care; others may be present within the plaster. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right. One C17 moulded 3-plank door on ground floor, opening into rear extension. Cellar, apparently of C16 bricks.

Listing NGR: TL8594518338