Lingwoods

KELVEDON CHURCH HILL TL 8418-8518 (north-east side)

9/137 Lingwoods 29.5.87

GV II

House. C16 and C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, partly clad with painted brick in Flemish bond, partly plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing SW, with late C16 axial stack between middle and right bays. C19 external stack at left end, enclosed by C19 single-storey lean-to extension with internal stack at rear. Single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof along full length of rear. Brick shed with lean-to roof of corrugated asbestos at rear left corner. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 late C19 sashes with marginal lights. First floor, one similar sash and one early C19 sash of 16 lights. C19 half-glazed door. Dentilled eaves course, roof hipped at both ends. An early C19 brick facade with dentilled parapet conceals the lean-to extension at the left end. In the right bay, mid-C16 floor comprising a chamfered axial beam, 2 joggled chamfered bridging beams, and chamfered joists of horizontal section, all with step stops. Left of the stack, a chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section, all Cl7. Stack almost wholly rebuilt on the ground floor in open plan ranch style, retaining one chamfered mantel beam but sunk in new brickwork, complete above. Jowled posts. Walls raised approx. 1.5 metres, probably in early C19, original framing still present below. Internal tiebeams removed or severed.

Listing NGR: TL8536118746