Rushmore House

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

9/38 No. 15 (Rushmore House)

GV II

House, now shop and house. C16 or earlier and C18/early C19, altered in late C19 and C20. Timber framed, roughcast render and plaster, roofed with grey slate, gault stacks. Main range facing SE with internal stack at left end and rear wing at right end, C18. Wing to rear of left end, C16 or earlier, with stack at the junction. 2 storeys and attic. At left, late C19/early C20 shopfront with splayed windows of 1-2-1 and 1-2 lights, recessed double half- glazed doors with overlights; three 4-centred arches with carved spandrels below dentilled and moulded fascia. At right, C20 shopfront with single window. First floor, 3 C18 sashes of 12 lights with crown glass. Moulded cornice and plain parapet, both continuing along right return and rear elevation of right wing. Right return, early C19 double 3-panel doors, full-length tented canopy repaired with felt, and on first floor, 2 C18/early C19 sahses of 16 lights. Hipped roof. The rear elevation of the right wing has one C18 sash of 12 lights with crown glass on each floor; 2 more on the upper right elevation of the left wing. In the rear left wing most of the timber frame is concealed by interior finishes, but one binding beam with double ogee mouldings is exposed, jointed to wallposts at each end; blocked mortices for missing axial beams to front and rear of it. The rear right wing has an early C19 quarter-turn stair with turned newels, painted wreathed handrail, stick balusters and scrolled tread-ends. On each floor of it is an early/mid C19 half-glazed door with 9 lights; on the first-floor landing is an early C19 semi- elliptical arch.

Listing NGR: TL8507622662