1, Bridge Street

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL BRIDGE STREET (east side)

9/22 No. 1 (formerly listed 31.10.66 in Market End)

GV II

House and shop. C17, extended in early C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles and slate. 2-bay main range facing NW (to Market End) and 2-bay wing to rear of left bay, with internal stack at the junction. Early C19 wing extending along Bridge Street, facing W. 2 storeys, cellar and attic. Elevation to Market End, ground floor, one early C19 sash of 16 lights with crown glass, and C19 shop window of 4 narrow vertical lights with 2 fluted pilasters, plain fascia and shallow canopy; first floor, one tripartite sash of 4-16-4 lights; C19 horizontal sash of 12 lights in gabled dormer. The same shopfront extends round the obtuse angle into the Bridge Street elevation, with similar window, pilasters, fascia and canopy, and half-glazed door and overlight splayed on the angle. The Bridge Street elevation has also an early C19 shopfront of 40 lights (the bottom line of 10 lights blocked) with a door to the left, 3 fluted pilasters, plain fascia and moulded shallow canopy, and on the first floor 2 similar tripartite sashes and one sash of 3+6 lights; one C19 horizontal sash of 12 lights in attic gable. The roofs of the Market End range and rear wing are tiled; the roof of the Bridge Street wing is of shallow pitch and slated, and the rear elevation is weatherboarded. In the main range is a chamfered axial beam, mainly boxed in; joists plastered to the soffits. 2 wood-burning hearths back to back, each with a rounded right splay; the front hearth is reduced to form a coal-burning hearth and an arched recess to the right of it. Under alteration at time of survey, May 1987. Known as The Green Dragon Inn in the C18 (G.F. Beaumont, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, 1890, 233). RCHM 78.

Listing NGR: TL8498622535