Description

KELVEDON HATCH

TQ59NE CHURCH ROAD
723-1/5/430 (South side)
20/02/76 Dodds Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
CHURCH ROAD, Kelvedon Hatch
Dodds Farmhouse)

II

House. c1500, c1600 and C20. Timber-framed, rendered and
colour washed, peg-tile roof with small hip to E. Rectangular
plan with a projection at E end of S side and rear outshuts.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey, 5 window range, mainly C20 restored wooden
windows with old iron casements, reglazed and leaded with
small rectangular panes. N elevation E to W, ground-floor
windows, three 3-light, one fixed light and one 3-light, first
floor, one 3-light, one 2-light, one 3-light, one 2-light, one
3-light. E and W gable end chimneys, C17 red brick, both
essentially English bond but irregular. E stack with 2
octagonal shafts, moulded based and ovolo-moulded caps, W
stack plain except for recessed arched panel on W face at
gable height. Rear elevation complex with large principal
stack in centre of S wall with 3 octagonal shafts as on E
gable stack. Double gabled projection to E of stack. Two C20
wooden casement first-floor windows, one 3-light and one
2-light to W of stack. C20 brick lean-to and outshuts on
ground floor with central 4 unit aluminium framed
conservatory. To W large 2-paned casement window and C20
glazed door, to E of stack gabled projection with 4-light
casement window and lean-to with glazed aluminium framed door.
Outshut roofs a mixture of C20 flat machine-made tiles and peg
tiles. Front door, now on E end wall, C20 with 6 fielded
panels, fixed side lights and deep C20 gabled hood, peg-tiled.
INTERIOR: shows 3 cells, mainly c1600, but W end unit is an
earlier high end cross-wing, c1500, once jettied to N.
Principal joists and wall posts with step stopped chamfers.
Display arched bracing on outer E face to a former hall.
Apparent shutter groove, now plastered over in N tie-beam for
front window of upper chamber. Central and E cells c1600 laid
on earlier work with binding and bridging joists with lamb's
tongue chamfer stops. E room has deep sectioned joists with
diminished haunches and pendant soffits. Contemporary lateral
stack to rear of central room with ground-floor fireplace
rebuilt but first floor one, with 4 centre arch,
ovolo-moulded. Possible further fireplace in attic, now
covered. E stack of same form, ground-floor fireplace
restored, first floor one 4 centre arch, ovolo-moulded. W end
stack inserted into earlier outer wall of cross-wing, storey
post cut, ground-floor fireplace now plain, first floor 4
centre arch, ovolo-moulded. First floor has two C17 door
frames jointed and pegged in partition between centre and E
room. Also 2 other contemporary door frames allowed access
across the E area of the house. The timber-frame projection to
the S of the E end, now covered by twin gables, appears to be
early and original moulded wall plates survive with hollow
chamfer, return and plain chamfer. It appears to have been for
a cross-wing, probably projecting only at the rear, later
remodelled in C17 with new tie-beams, studding and double
gables. Roof has a central area of sooted rafter couples
showing compression marks and differential sooting where a
collar purlin of a crown post roof originally ran. Both ends
change to unsooted C17 butt purlin construction at W end
replacing the earlier cross-wing roof and at E end replacing
the other early roof set at right angles projecting to S. The
sooted rafters in situ over the original hall have carpenters
marks and 2 trusses in the centre have rafter joints for a
second lower collar (perhaps for a louvre frame). Of the later
rebuild the W end of the roof has a terminal truss with
exterior weathering set about 1.25m from the present end and
it contains the framing of an ovolo-moulded window, mullions
now gone. The probability of an attic fireplace plus a gable
end window implies that for a while the house had a heated and
lit attic which later went out of use. Even later
reconstruction of the gable end is indicated by rudimentary
framing seen round the fireplace on the first floor
immediately below. Rows of peg holes in the E wall of the W
ground-floor room were probably for a warping frame used in
weaving.

Listing NGR: TQ5675998895

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502968

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