Resthaven The Manse

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL ALBERT PLACE (north-east side)

9/19 No. 1 (The Manse) 31.10.66 (formerly listed with No. 50, Church Street (Resthaven), now combined under one address)

GV II

House. Circa 1560, altered in C19. Timber framed, partly clad with brickwork, all plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 3 bays facing NW (on to Church Street), with one axial stack. One-bay rear wing at right end, with a stack at the junction. C19 single-storey lean-to extension at rear left, with slate roof. Early C19 2-bay wing to rear centre. 2 storeys with attics. 3-window range of early C19 sashes of 16 lights with crown glass. One C19 horizontal sash of 12 lights in a gabled dormer. C20 plain door to through-passage. At first-floor level, late CL9 softwood fascia carved in early C16 style with continuous folded leaf design, damaged by sand-blasting. The right return (to Albert Place) has on the ground floor one early C19 sash of 12 lights, one of 16 lights in a segmental arch, and on the first floor 2 early C19 sashes of 12 lights, and one of 16 lights in a segmental arch; one C20 sash in attic gable. C19/20 half-glazed door with gabled canopy, ornamental slates, and brackets. Similar carved fascia. Late C19/early C20 bargeboards with simple geometrical design of chamfers and piercings. Jowled posts. Moulded transverse beams with roll and step stops. Moulded axial beams, partly boxed. Joists of horizontal section with a single roll moulding at the arrises, and some plain. Underbuilt full-length jetty to Church Street. In axial stack, one C19 hearth and one blocked. In stack at left end (shared with no. 52, Church Street), wide wood-burning hearth reduced for smaller grate. C17 inserted ceiling above first floor. Butt-purlin roof with arched wind-bracing. Early C19 quarter-turn stair from first floor to attic, with turned newels, straight handrail and stick balusters. RCHM 30. See items 9/20 and 9/66.

Listing NGR: TL8520422758