Montrose

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (south side)

9/109 No. 16 (Montrose) 2.5.53 (formerly listed as Montrose)

GV II

Part of house, now house. C15, altered in C16 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay main range facing N, of house which formerly included crosswings to E (no. 18, item 9/110, q.v.) and to W (no. 14, item 9/108, q.v.). Internal stack to rear of ridge. Single-storey lean-to to rear. 2 storeys and unlit attics. 3 mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights (including marginal lights) on ground floor, and 2 on first floor. Flush 4- panel door in simple doorcase with moulded pediment on profiled brackets. Plain door to passage through at right. The front wall was originally set back from the crosswings, but has been rebuilt in the late C16 to align with them, and raised, enclosing the jowled posts of the original construction; the original front wallplate is severed at the posts. Moulded jetty plate with spiral-leaf carving, partly boxed in. Moulded joists of horizontal section. Chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops above first floor, with attic floor of rebated boards. Butt-purlin roof, 2 purlins in each pitch, stained with creosote. C20 grates. C19 quarter-turn stair with scrolled tread- ends, hardwood handrail, stick balusters, newels possibly altered. Display bracing of left crosswing exposed (item 9/110, q.v.). RCHM 70.

Listing NGR: TL8508922563