Olde Stoneham

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL STONEHAM STREET (east side)

9/196 No. 22 (Olde Stoneham) 31.10.66 (formerly listed as No. 22)

GV II

House. C15, extended in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 2 bays facing SW. Crosswing of 4 bays to left, with C19 stack in second bay, C17 one-bay extension to rear, and C19 bakery oven beyond, in lean-to roofed with red clay pantiles, and small C20 extension beyond with flat roof. C18/19 short wing to rear of main range, with internal stack at right. 2 storeys. Ground floor, one C19 casement, one C18/early C19 splayed oriel of 4-16-4 lights supported by twisted wrought iron stay, and one early C19 sash of 16 lights. First floor, 3 similar sashes. C18 battened door, faced with C20 oak planks and imitation door furniture; wrought iron bootscraper. Plain boarded door to passage at right end. Full-length jetty. Front 2 bays of crosswing re-roofed to align approximately with roof of main range. Wrought iron bracket above main door for hanging sign, missing. Front plastered, most of rear and sides weatherboarded with tarred elm boards. Inside passage, painted elm weatherboards on left, plaster on right. Jowled posts. The crosswing has chamfered binding beams with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section jointed to them with unrefined soffit tenons. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Crownpost roof, incomplete, with some trenched rafters of front bays remaining inside later roof. The bay beyond has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, unjowled posts and primary straight bracing. Large C19 baker's oven, complete with cast iron door and splays. The main range has 2 cambered tiebeams, both repaired in C18/19, one with a bolted Y-bracket grown to shape. At the right end the main range abuts on no. 24 (item 9/197, q.v.) without additional studding, blocking a complete unglazed window of it; the studding and trenched brace of no. 24 are heavily weathered, indicating that no. 22 was built a considerable period after no. 24. Claspedpuclin roof. RCHM 39.

Listing NGR: TL8499822705