3, Albert Place

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL ALBERT PLACE (north-east side)

9/20 No. 3 (formerly 31.10.66 listed as Albert GV Place) II House. Late C16, altered in early CL9. Timber framed, weatherboarded, partly plastered with exposed framing, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing SW with C19 central stack. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 12 lights, with crown glass. First floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 3+6 lights, with crown glass. Off-centre early C19 6-panel door, the bottom panels flush, the middle panels fielded, the top panels glazed, damaged by sand-blasting; moulded flat canopy on profiled brackets. The front elevation, right return, and right half of the rear elevation are weatherboarded. The remaining part of the rear elevation is plastered up to first-floor level, and above has exposed original framing, with serpentine bracing trenched into the studs. The rear elevation has on the first floor one early C19 sash of 16 lights with crown glass. Chamfered axial beams, one with empty mortices for soffit tenons with diminished haunches, the joists raised and plastered to the soffits. 2 C19 hearths back to back. Internal studded partitions removed. Jowled posts. In right end wall, curved tension braces trenched to the inside of the studding. queen strut roof with clasped purlins, unceiled. A mutilated ogee doorhead at the left end appears to be a C20 introduction. In origin this may be a service wing of the adjacent house, no. 1 Albert Place (item 9/19, q.v.), but it has been a separate house since the early C19.

Listing NGR: TL8519522739