89, West Street

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL WEST STREET (south side)

9/233 No. 89

GV II

House. C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing N, with axial stack in second bay from left end (rebuilt in C20), forming a lobby-entrance, now blocked. C18/19 wing to rear left. C20 in-line extension to right, matching wing to rear, and single-storey extension with flat roof between the wings. Small lean-to extension at left end. 2 storeys and unlit attic. 4 sashes of 16 lights on ground floor, 5 on first floor, some early C19 with crown glass, some reproduction. C20 door in right return. Roof half-hipped at both ends. Posts with sharply angled jowls. Chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists; one binding beam jointed for a former jetty, re-used. Cambered tiebeams with chamfered bridging beams. Original clasped purlin roof with later intruded timber. Introduced pine doors of 4 horizontal panels, reported to be from Ingatestone Manor. The C20 right extension has a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of square section of c.1600, accurately reconstructed. C19 stippled plaster of former right external wall enclosed in attic. Extensively renovated c.1985.

Listing NGR: TL8433122420