2 And 4, East Street

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (south side)

9/103 Nos. 2 and 4 (formerly 31.10.66 listed as No. 2 (Bank Buildings) and No. 4)

GV II

House, now 2 houses. C17 or earlier, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing N, with 2 axial stacks joining over central passage to form a single stack to right of centre. No. 2 to right of passage, no. 4 to left. Full-width extension to rear. No. 2 has a rear stack and a C19 red brick extension beyond. No. 4 has a range of C20 single-storey lean-to extensions to rear. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor, 2 late C19 tripartite sashes of 2-2-2 lights. First floor, 3 late C19 sashes of 6 lights, and 2 more in gabled dormers with late C19 bargeboards with simple geometrical piercings. No. 4 has a 4-panel door in the left side of the passage. No. 2 has a C20 glazed door to the rear, and above it an early C19 sash of 16 lights. Rear gables weatherboarded. The timber frames are concealed by internal finishes, and the beams boxed, but some framing of the left return is exposed in the adjacent house (no. 6, item 9/104, q.v.), with straight bracing trenched outside the studding. The owner of no. 4 reports that old hardwood floorboards are present, covered and levelled up with softwood boards.

Listing NGR: TL8503522548