70, Church Street

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

9/70 No. 70 (formerly 30.10.66 listed as Nos. 58, 60 and 64)

GV II

House. C16 or earlier, altered in early c19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing NW with C19 stack at right end, and rear stack near left end. 2 rear wings, each with an external stack at the end (truncated on the left wing), and small single-storey lean-to between them, forming a half-H plan. 2 storeys. 2-window range of early C19 sashes of 16 lights, and sash of 12 lights above door, with crown glass. Central early C19 6-panel door, bottom panels flush, the others moulded, in plain doorcase with moulded pediment on profiled brackets. Moulded eaves cornice. In the rear elevation, above the lean-to are 3 mid-C19 casements with marginal lights and red and blue glass. In the left elevation of the right wing, on the first floor, is an C18 window of 3 transomed lights with one wrought iron casement and rectangular leading. Most of the timber frame is concealed by interior finishes, but on the first floor of the right wing some studding is exposed, with a trenched curved brace. The left wallplate of it is chamfered with step stops, and has one arched brace; the right wallplate is rebated for a shutter. Early C19 straight stair with one turned newel (and one renewed), moulded pine handrail and stick balusters. The right ground-floor room has an C18 2-panel pine door, and an C18 cupboard with arched head, fluted pilasters, spheroid interior, profiled shelves, and fielded panelled doors below. On the ground floor are 2 early C19 semi-elliptical arches, and 2 over the first-floor landing.

Listing NGR: TL8522422787