Coggeshall House

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL CHURCH STREET (south-east side)

9/76 No. 82 (Coggeshall 19.7.82 House)

GV II

House. C14 and C16, altered in 1897. Timber framed, plastered with exposed imitation framing, partly clad with red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings. Main range facing NW with axial stacks at right end and to right of centre, and internal rear stack near left end. Lower one-bay range to right, and C19 lean-to extension beyond, weatherboarded with slate roof. Large extension to rear left in Tudor style. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 sashes with chamfered stone surrounds and hood moulds of brick, 1897. First floor, 3 square oriels of 3 transomed lights, each on 4 plain brackets, with rectangular leading, gabled roofs, carved bargeboards, pendants and finials, 1897. Also 3 casements with rectangular leading. The main door, to left of centre, has 4 linenfold panels, a Tudor head with carved spandrels and moulded stone surround, 1897. Plain door at right end of main range, with plain overlight and double- chamfered stone surround. Carved wooden fascia, 1897. Both roofs hipped. 2 octagonal shafts in Tudor style on each stack. Carved bargeboards, finial and pendant, 1897, on right gable of main range. The front elevation is clad with brick up to first-floor level, probably indicating a full-length jetty, underbuilt, and above, imitation framing in early C17 West Midlands style. The whole house has been altered in Tudor style, outside and inside, in 1897, and little of the original framing is visible. Jowled posts in both ranges. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops in both ranges, late C16. The short right range has exposed plain joists of horizontal section, and deep wall bracing of ogee curvature trenched into the studs, similar to that of No. 30, Church Street (item 9/61, q.v.). The main range has original framing exposed in the upper part of one cross-wall, with near-straight bracing trenched into the studs.

Listing NGR: TL8530622864