In Swan Yard

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (north side)

9/96 No. 33 (in Swan Yard)

GV II

House. Late C16, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2 bays facing NE, extended to right and left, with 2 C19 stacks in front of ridge. 2 storeys. 4-window range of C20 casements. One C20 glazed door, one C20 door made up of old boards, and one C20 plain door to right. C20 ornamental pargetting. The rear wallplate has an edge-halved and bridled scarf, 2 blocked unglazed windows, one with a diamond mortice and one with a groove for sliding shutter. Heavy studding with primary straight bracing. C20 grates. Clasped purlin roof, the rafters having oblique trenches and gauging holes from a former use with a crownpost roof. The left extension is C19 and C20, reported to be on the site of a former smithy. The right bay, altnough now roofed in line with the others, retains some early structure in the right wall, and some evidence of a jetty at the front, indicating that it has been rebuilt from a former 2-bay crosswing.

Listing NGR: TL8512822621