5 And 7, East Street

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (north side)

9/89 Nos. 5 and 7 (formerly 31.10.66 listed in the same item as No. 3 (The Cottage)

GV II

Pair of attached shops with houses over, now one house (no. 5) and one shop with house over (no. 7). Early C19, incorporating some C15 structure. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roofed with slate. Square plan facing S with shared axial stack, external stack to left, and 2 rear stacks. C20 single-storey extension with flat roof to rear centre. 3 storeys. 2 early C19 shopfronts beneath full-width jetty. No. 5, at the left, has a bowed window of 24 lights with narrow reeded pilasters with paterae; blocked doorway to left of it; half- glazed door with blocked overlight to right; wrought iron bootscraper. No. 7, at the right, has a similar window altered to a splayed bay of 1:4 vertical lights; double half-glazed doors with marginal lights, and overlight with geometrical tracery. Continuous simple moulded fascia over both shops at front of jetty. The first and second floors each have early C19 sashes of 12 and 16 lights with crown and early sheet glass. No. 5 has an early C19 quarter-turn stair with turned newels, wreathed and moulded mahogany handrail and stick balusters; on the first floor is an early C19 fire surround, moulded with paterae. No. 7 has a similar stair. No structure is visible, but framing exposed in no. 9, to the right (item 9/90, q.v.) indicates that no. 7 incorporates the framing of a 2-storey 2-bay crosswing of a C15 hall house. In the wallplate is an edge- halved scarf with sallied and bridled abutments. RCHM 63.

Listing NGR: TL8506422583