Marks Hall Cottages

TL 82 NW COGGESHALL MARKS HALL ROAD

2/155 Nos. 1 and 2, Marks Hall Cottages

GV II

House, now 2 houses. C16, altered in C18 and C20. Mainly timber framed and plastered, partly of red brick in English and Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Timber framed main range facing SW, with 2 axial stacks. Brick wing extending forward at left end, with C18 stack in left wall, and small C20 extension to left. C19/20 wing to rear of right end. 2 storeys. 5 C20 casements on ground floor and 4 on first floor. 2 plain boarded doors, and half-glazed door in C20 extension to left. Front elevation of main range faced with brick in Flemish bond to level of first floor, plastered above. The brick wing is of C16 bricks in English bond to a height of approximately 3 metres, and C18 bricks in Flemish bond above, the front elevation much altered around the windows. Roofs hipped. Elaborately scrolled wrought iron weathervane on roof of brick wing. Profiled sprockets below eaves. Jowled posts. Chamfered axial and transverse beams, unstopped, plain joists of horizontal section. Frame mainly concealed by interior finishes. Formerly a service range of Marks Hall, which was demolished in 1949, but probably a house earlier. This may be the part described in RCHM (Markshall) 2 as built c.1566, although the origin of this precise dating information is unknown.

Listing NGR: TL8406025456