Description

KELVEDON MALDON ROAD TL 8618-8718 (east side)

10/256 The Greys and Greys 25.6.74 East (formerly listed as The Greys)

GV II

House and office, now house and cottage. 1858. Painted brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Double pile plan facing SE, with 2 internal stacks of gault brick, asymmetrically arranged. Large service wing to rear right, and smaller and lower wing, formerly the accounts office of Greys Mill, now Greys East, in the angle in front of it, with one stack at the junction and one internal stack. Small single-storey extension with hipped roof to rear of service wing. 2 storeys. 3-window range of sashes with marginal lights and shallow segmental arches. Central 6-panel door, the lower part flush, in doorcase with reeded surround and paterae, panelled jambs and soffit, overlight with geometrical cast iron tracery, and moulded flat canopy. In Greys East, one C20 metal casement on ground floor, one original sash on first floor, plain door. Hipped roofs of shallow pitch with long overhangs. In left return, one sash of 12 lights and one French window with marginal lights, both original, on ground floor. In right return of Greys East, one original sash of 12 lights with original external shutter on ground floor, round window on first floor. Original sashes of 12 lights and tripartite sashes in right return of service wing and rear elevation of main house. Much crown glass. Original stair with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and moulded treads. 4-panel internal doors. Formerly the house and office of Grey's Mill (item 10/257, q.v.), also known as Docwra's, both rebuilt for George Docwra after a fire in 1858 (R. Benham, Some Essex Water Mills, 1976, 67).

Listing NGR: TL8607618233

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)