21, Church Green

TL 82 SE COGGESHALL CHURCH GREEN (north-west side)

6/31 No. 21 (formerly 31.10.66 listed in Church Street)

GV II

House. Early C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 3 bays facing SE, with C19 external stack at right end. C18/19 wing to rear of right end. Early C17 2-bay wing to left, lower than main range, with C19 axial stack at the junction. C20 parallel range to rear of both parts, completing a rectangular plan. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 3 C19/20 casements and one C18 splayed oriel. First floor, 2 C20 casements in one lean-to dormer with slate roof in left wing, 2 C19 horizontal sashes in gabled dormers in main range. C20 door. Projecting through the front wall of the main range is the end of a beam, ovolo-moulded all round, with a long tusk-tenon. Similar beam and tusk-tenon in left wing, not moulded. In right return of rear wing, one C20 casement in flat-roofed dormer. Jowled posts, primary straight bracing in studded walls. The right bay of the main range has a chamfered axial beam with a lamb's tongue stop on one side, a similar stop with a notch on the other side of the same end. The other beam, projecting at the front and inserted at the bay post, is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Plain joists of vertical section, sand-blasted. Clasped purlin roof. In the left wing the beam projecting through the front wall is chamfered with lamb's tongue and notch stops. Plain joists, the original ones of square section, some replaced by later joists of vertical section. Inserted window in left return, blocked by no. 19. Clasped purlin roof, one collar visible externally in left return, the next collar missing, the next reduced in depth. Both the main range and the left wing were originally of one storey, the floors inserted soon after the initial construction. It is possible that one or both were originally not domestic buildings. RCHM 4. Shown as an isolated house in a map of 1731; the road was then called New Row (Essex Record Office, D/DU/ 19/2).

Listing NGR: TL8547223047