73 And 74, Stock Street

TL 82 SW 5/176

COGGESHALL

STOCK STREET (north side)

Nos. 73 and 74

GV II

House, now 2 cottages. C16 and early C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C16 main range of 2 bays facing approximately S, with C20 stack at left end and C20 single-storey extension beyond. Early C17 2-bay crosswing to right, with contemporary stack at the junction, and C19 catslide extension to right with stack at rear corner. No. 73 comprises the main range and left extension, no. 74 comprises the crosswing and right extension. 2 storeys. 5 C20 casements on ground floor, 4 on first floor. 2 C20 doors with C19 gabled canopies. Roof of crosswing half-hipped at front. C20 casements to rear. Rear weatherboarded, front and sides plastered. The main range has jowled posts, a binding beam supported on a hewn ledge of ogee profile, plain joists of horizontal section arranged longitudinally, one of 2 chamfered braces to a cambered tiebeam, and a C20 grate in a C19 wood-burning hearth. The crosswing has jowled posts, curved braces trenched inside the studding, a chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered bridging beams without stops, and plain joists of vertical section. Large wood-burning hearth reduced for C20 grate. RCHM 93.

Listing NGR: TL8301122602