Description

KELVEDON HATCH

TL50SE KELVEDON HALL LANE
723-1/1/434 (West side)
27/08/52 Kelvedon Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
ONGAR ROAD, Kelvedon Hatch
Kelvedon Hall)

GV I

Country house. c1743. For John Wright. Restored late C18 and
1937-8 by Lord Gerald Wellesley and Trenwith Wells. Red brick,
Flemish bond, lead roof. Central 3-storeyed rectangular block
with two 2-storeyed pavilions set forward on each side, linked
to central block by curved walls, creating a U-shaped group.
EXTERIOR: central block 7 bays, arranged 2:3:2, outer section
articulated forward slightly. Moulded cornice at base of
parapet and 2 string courses, upper one moulded. All windows
have plain reveals and flat window heads with gauged brick
voussoirs and all are sashes with thin glazing bars, ground
floor and first floors 3x4 panes, second floor 3x2 panes.
Central doorcase with attached Tuscan columns, pediment and
frieze with rosettes in the metopes and semicircular fan
light. Door with 3x2 pane glazing and lower panel. Pavilions
with 3 windows range on inner face with exposed flush frames
and thick glazing bars. Outer NE fronts have 2 window range
but all false with painted glazing bars and panes. Ground
floor 3x4 panes set in depressed arches, first floor oval with
painted glazing bars. Roofs hipped, peg-tiled, each with a
turret and open arched, ogee domed cupola. SE turret has a
clock. NE turret a weather vane. Curved walls each have a
central door and 3 first floor windows, 3x4 panes, painted in
except for 2 real ones on N side. Rear SW garden front of 7
bays, 2:3:2, central section articulated forward with simple
pediment, moulded cornice below parapet and moulded string
course between first and second floors. Central porch, flat
headed of Adam style on plain columns, fluted capitals and a
frieze with fluting and paterae with dentils. Glazed door with
glazing bars, 3x2 panes and similar glazed fan light. Windows
as front. Side wings, single storey, N wing with 3 false
painted windows, 3x4 panes, set in depressed arches. Parapet
with slightly recessed ends. S wing similar, but real windows.
Both wings with stone moulded cornice and stone coping. Ball
finial on each end.
INTERIOR essentially original. Entrance hall with 7 doors
leading off, each with dentilled pediments and panelled
reveals. Rooms have good C18 features, especially the dining
room with Adam style division of serving end (transverse beam
and 2 in antis columns). Roundel of Ulysses and Penelope over
fireplace. Adam style decoration in other rooms e.g. drawing
room. Stair hall also late C18 style. The house contains a
chapel (the Wrights were a Roman Catholic family) and the
study has a ceiling with grotesques and putti painted on cloth
and applied. The Wright family had the property for 10
generations until 1822. Kelvedon Hall, the Lodge (qv), the
stable block (qv), the orangery and garden wall (qv) form a
group.
(Morant P: The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex:
1768-: 185; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Essex: 1965-:
255; Cowan J: Kelvedon Hatch Revisited and the Wrights of
Kelvedon Hall: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TL5584800030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Kelvedon Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17536353

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)