Riverside Cottage

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL GRANGE HILL (west side)

9/126 No. 2 (Riverside Cottage)

GV II

Cottage. Early C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with slate. Single range facing E with axial stack at left end, originally external, now internal, and C19/20 stack to rear right. 2 storeys. C20 single- storey lean-to extension with slate roof along full length of rear, and projecting to right; C20 flat-roofed extension to left. 2-window range of C20 casements with rectangular leading. Plain boarded door with C20 gabled and tiled canopy on brackets. Originally this was a single-storey cottage; the walls have been raised approximately 1.40 metres and the roof rebuilt to a slate pitch. Chamfered axial beam with runout stops in left bay, boxed in right bay. One original roof truss is preserved in the intermediate partition. Large wood-burning hearth with 0.33 metre jambs and a seat in each inglenook, of C16 and C17 bricks. In 1980 a child's shoe datable to c.1700, items of children's clothing and clay pipes were found in this stack, now in Colchester Museum and in the possession of the owner. Shown as one of a line of buildings in a map of 1639 (Essex Record Office, D/DOp P.1).

Listing NGR: TL8494022313