Langan'S Restaurant Premises 35 Yards North Of Junction Of Church Street And Stoneham Street

Langan's Restaurant Premises is a timber-framed house, originally dating to the 15th century, with significant alterations in the 16th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is located 35 yards north of the junction of Church Street and Stoneham Street in Coggeshall.

The house has a 2-bay hall facing southwest, a 3-bay crosswing to its left, and a 2-bay crosswing to its right. The external appearance is a combination of timber framing, plaster, and weatherboarding, with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. A single-storey lean-to extension with a stack was added to the rear of the hall in the 19th century, featuring a slate roof. A 2-storey extension to the rear of the right crosswing, also with a slate roof, and a long, single-storey wing to the rear, partially tiled and partially slated, were also added in the 19th century.

The front of the building has four 20th-century fixed lights on the ground floor. The first floor features two 19th or early 20th-century sash windows with six lights, and two early 19th-century sashes with three and six lights respectively. There are two half-glazed four-panel doors, double half-glazed doors, and a two-panel door at the right-hand end. A dentilled cornice sits above the first-floor windows of the hall range. 19th-century bargeboards adorn the gables of both crosswings and a false gable in the middle, incorporating simple chamfers, piercings, moulded finials, and plain parapets. Both crosswings have overhanging jetties, and the front wall of the hall range has been extended forward to align with them. The rear elevation of the left crosswing is clad in tarred hardwood weatherboarding.

The interior of the ground floor has largely been faced with modern materials; however, plain, horizontally sectioned joists are exposed in the front bay of the left crosswing. A studded partition between the middle and rear bays of the left crosswing has been removed, as have the studded partitions at both ends of the hall, now supported by two 19th-century cast iron stanchions. A late 16th-century floor was inserted in the hall, featuring a chamfered axial beam with lamb’s tongue stops. The only hearth is blocked. On the upper storey, some wall framing is exposed, incorporating curved tension bracing trenched into close studding. There are rebates for the shutters of unglazed windows. In the left crosswing, there are two chamfered arched braces to a cambered tiebeam, and a studded partition between the middle and rear bay has been removed. The original crownpost roofs remain exceptionally complete. The left crosswing retains all axial braces, except at the rear end, which has been altered to a hip. The middle crownpost of the hall range is octagonal, with a moulded base and cap, and four-way rising braces; the collar-purlin is chamfered with step stops. A significant portion of the original patterned wattle and daub infill remains intact and exhibits smoke-blackening in the left end of the hall roof. The roof of the right crosswing is difficult to access but is apparently unaltered. The height of both storeys is unusual.