23, Church Street

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL CHURCH STREET (north-west side)

9/39 No. 23 (formerly 2.5.53 listed as Shop premises 70 yds. south west of London House)

GV II

House, now shop, bakery and house. Early C18, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of parallelogram plan facing SE, with 2 rear wings, the right wing being the longer, each with an internal stack. To rear of left wing, C19/20 single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof. 2 storeys and attic. Ground floor, late C19 shopfront with 2 large projecting windows, glazed door, overlight with 4-centred arch, 3 plain pilasters, fascia with moulded canopy, and 3 stone steps. Early C19 bow of sashes of 4-12-4 lights, with crown glass. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 12 lights, with crown glass. Early C19 6-panel door, the bottom panels flush and the others fielded, in heavily reeded architrave with paterae and moulded shallow canopy. Moulded eaves cornice, extending along full length of left return. C20 weatherboarded dado on left return, the remainder plastered. At rear of rear lean-to, bow window similar to that at front, probably re-set. C19 casement in hipped dormer in rear hip of left wing. RCHM 18.

Listing NGR: TL8510422685