Surridge'S

This is a late 16th-century house, later altered in the 18th century, early 19th century, and 20th century. It is now used as offices and is located on the west side of Coggeshall Market Hill. The house is timber-framed, mainly plastered, with an 18th-century brick facade to the rear. The roof is covered in handmade red plain tiles. The building has a three-bay parallelogram plan, with the long axis parallel to the street. A large 16th-century chimney stack is located at the rear, and is partially concealed by a two-bay rear wing dating from the early 17th century.

The front has a 20th-century shopfront, a recessed central glazed door, and a six-panel door with a plain overlight at the right end, all under a continuous fascia. Above this, there are two sash windows of 16 lights, dating from the early 19th century. The roof is hipped at the left end, and connects to the roof of the adjacent building to the right (listed separately).

The rear facade is brick, constructed in a Flemish bond pattern, with some re-pointing of the lower storey. There are recessed panels created with blue brick headers, a moulded brick band at first-floor level, and a plastered eaves cornice, which is approximately 0.40 metres higher than the timber-framed structure. It features single early 19th-century sash windows of 16 lights with segmental gauged arches, or 20th-century replicas. The rear wing has a hipped roof.

Internally, a studded partition between the left and middle bays on the ground floor has been removed. There are chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered axial bridging beams (unstopped), and plain joists. Two 20th-century brick piers support the intersections. The stack has been reduced in size and reclad with 20th-century bricks in a stretcher bond. An inserted stud in the rear wall now obscures an original passageway at the right end.

On the first floor of the main range, the smoke-blackened end truss of a former open hall is exposed in the right wall, featuring paired display braces trenched into the studding. Jowled posts are present, along with one original arched brace to the left internal tiebeam, and one imitation brace, nailed. Axial bridging beams are chamfered and unstopped, and there are plain joists of vertical section. There's a simple splayed and tenoned scarf in the front wallplate.

A rear hearth, dating to around 1600, has moulded and stopped jambs, a moulded depressed arch (plastered), and an original mantel beam above. The rear wing has jowled posts, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and some exposed studding on the upper floor. The ground floor has been extensively remodeled in the 18th century with boxed beams and cyma mouldings made of pine, which have suffered damage from sand-blasting. A doorway connects the main range to the rear wing on the upper floor. This doorway features a bolection-moulded frame and fielded panelling, all constructed from pine. There's a chamfered bridging beam with lamb's tongue and notch stops, and plain joists of vertical section.