Coggeshall Galleries

This is a shop and gallery, originally a crosswing of a hall house, dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries. It has undergone significant alterations in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with plaster rendering, and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles and slate.

The two-bay crosswing was originally part of a larger hall house but was replaced in the late 16th century by the adjacent building. The building’s plan forms a parallelogram due to its oblique angle to the street. A 19th-century external stack is located to the right of the front elevation. A one-bay wing was added to the rear in the early 19th century, with a contemporary internal stack to the right. A 20th-century conservatory extends from the rear.

The building is two storeys high and includes a cellar. A 20th-century projecting shopfront is present, featuring a 20th-century projecting shop window with three lights. The first floor has an early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights and crown glass. A 20th-century half-glazed door is set within an early 19th-century reeded architrave. A plain parapet projects slightly from the elevation. The roof was rebuilt to align with the adjacent building, with a hipped section to the right covered in tiles. The original elevation has been extended to the right to fill the gap between this building and the adjacent property. The rear wing has a shallow-pitched, slated roof.

The rear elevation includes an early 20th-century bow window and a reset 18th or early 19th-century sash window with 12 lights on the first floor. Ground floor hearths have been blocked. The rear wall’s studding has been removed, exposing a girt and binding beam which has been boxed in. An early 19th-century quarter-turn staircase is located at the rear left of the main part, featuring turned newels, a moulded left rail with stick balusters, and a 20th-century reproduction rail and balusters to the right. Within a right wall, some 18th-century studding is exposed behind earlier bricks, with a panel revealing a fragment of a rubble wall composed of flint and roofing tiles. On the first floor, a late 19th-century cast iron grate with a white marble surround is situated in front of the stack. The smoke-blackened end wall of the former hall is visible within the adjacent building.