36, East Street

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (south side)

9/113 No. 36 31.10.66

GV II

House. C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4-bay main range facing N with stack at right end. To rear, 2-bay building aligned N-S, originally freestanding, with short infill connecting it to main range. External stack at rear end, blocking unglazed window on first floor. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights, or replicas. First floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. C20 glazed door set back below jetty, underbuilt elsewhere, and garage doors to left. Roll-moulded bressumer. Plaster above jetty in moulded panels. Jowled posts in both buildings. The main range has straight braces trenched inside the studding, chamfered axial beams, unstopped, timber of inferior quality. In the front right corner of the ground floor is an attached C18 corner cupboard with arched head, carved shells in the spandrels, fluted pilasters, spheroid interior and profiled shelves. The rear building has timber of higher quality, curved braces trenched inside the studding, and a chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops connecting ledged posts each with a roll-moulding below the ledge; plain joists of square section jointed to the bridging beams with unrefined soffit tenons. Restored with Essex County Council's Revolving Fund c.1974, architect James Boutwood. RCHM 68.

Listing NGR: TL8512222567