Moor Cottage

FEERING COGGESHALL ROAD TL 8620-8720 (east side)

7/90 Moor Cottage

GV II

House. Early Cl7, extended in C18. Timber framed and brick, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2 bays facing SW, with original rear stack in left bay, original rear stair tower to right of it, and C18 stack in rear right corner. C18 one-bay extension to left, and C20 flat-roofed single-storey entrance lobby and garage beyond. 2 storeys with attics. Ground floor, one C20 casement, one late C19 sash of 16 lights, one early C19 sash of 16 lights. First floor, 3 C20 casements. One more in lean-to dormer. Ground floor is faced with plastered brick at front and both returns. Exceptionally steeply pitched roof. The ground floor has boxed axial beams and one transverse beam which is probably a modern replacement, and a large wood-burning hearth. On the first floor the framing is exposed internally - jowled posts, near-straight tension braces trenched inside the studding, face-halved and bladed scarf in rear wallplate, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of square section. Clasped purlin roof with arched collars. The left bay has unjowled posts and primary straight bracing. The stair tower retains the original stair with octagonal newel post from ground to attic, a rare feature. Both storeys are of exceptional height.

Listing NGR: TL8715720321