108, West Street

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL WEST STREET (north side)

9/217 No. 108

GV II

Crosswing of former hall house, now a house. C15, altered in early C19 and C20. Timber framed, with exposed framing at front, plastered elsewhere, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3-bay range with gable end to road, originally the crosswing of a hall house to the right, the remainder replaced c.1600 by the present no. 106 (item 9/216, q.v.). Early C19 axial stack at junction of middle and rear bays. C20 single-storey extension with flat roof to rear. 2 storeys. One early C19 sash of 16 lights on each floor. C20 door in right return, with access through passage-way. Underbuilt jetty at front, the original lower wall moved forwards to align with the upper wall, with the ends of joists of horizontal section exposed externally. C20 ornamental paired curved tension braces at each storey, in trenches for original braces. Bowtell in great casement moulding on front tiebeam. Front roof rebuilt to align with street and continuous range to right. Chamfered binding beams, unstopped, on ledged and jowled posts; joists plastered to the soffits. Small wood-burning hearth in front lower room. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in left wallplate. Grooves for sliding shutters in both wallplates, near rear corner in right plate to clear hall range; blocked unglazed windows. Original rebated oak floorboards in front bay. Crownpost roof, much altered. The front bays of the roof have been wholly rebuilt on the opposite alignment in the C19, and at the rear an original gablet hip has been extended to form a gable. The original rafter couples and collars survive between these alterations, with a stump of the collar-purlin in the gablet. The tiebeam between the middle and rear bays has been moved forwards to clear the inserted stack. Part of RCHM 90.

Listing NGR: TL8428222439