Padua Verona

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL CHURCH STREET (north-west side)

9/47 Nos. 51, 53 (Padua) 2.5.53 and 55 (Verona) (formerly listed as Padua and Verona)

GV II

House, now 3 houses. Circa 1570, altered in early C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with exposed framing, roofed with handmade red plain tiles and some slate. 4 bays facing SE with stack behind axis in second bay from left end. Catslide extensions to rear, roofed with tiles behind no. 55 and with slate behind no. 53. C20 2-storey extension to rear of no. 51, weatherboarded with flat roof. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 10+10 lights with crown glass, and one early C19 butcher's shopfront (no. 55); this has 24 lights, a moulded sill, and a grill across the top of turned balusters, returning to the right. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 5+10 lights with crown glass, one C20 replica, and one C20 sash of 6+6 lights. No. 51, 6-panel door, 4 fielded and moulded, 2 glazed, with flat canopy on scrolled brackets; one stone step. Nos. 53 and 55 each have a plain boarded door. No. 55 has a panel over the door with a diagonal pattern of vents. No. 5 has a wrought iron bootscraper. Full- length jetty, underbuilt with exposed nailed studding, with original bressumer richly carved with grotesque scrolls, foliage and a merchant's mark, mutilated at the right end. Above the jetty, original close studding with serpentine bracing trenched into it, partly missing; at the left end a panel of wattle and daub is exposed behind glass. Moulded eaves cornice. The right return has exposed close studding with trenched 'Suffolk' bracing above first-floor level, plastered below. iloulded transverse and axial beams. Joists of horizontal section with simple roll-moulded arrises. The large wood-burning hearth of no. 53 has been rebuilt. Trenched serpentine bracing in partition walls. No. 53 has an C18 quarter-turn stair with at the top a moulded handrail and turned balusters; on the first floor an early C19 cast iron grate with medallions in low relief. Clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing, complete and unaltered. RCHM 11.

Listing NGR: TL8518322783