14, West Street

TL 8422-8522 9/205 31.10.66 COGGESHALL

WEST STREET (north side)

No. 14

GV II

House. C14/15, altered in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with some weatherboarding, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3-bay range, gable end to street, with internal stack at right side of middle bay. C19 extension to rear left, the right wall of red brick on the lower storey, weatherboarded above. 2 storeys with attics. The ground floor and first floor each have one sash of 10+10 lights; one early C19 sash of 16 lights in attic gable. C20 glazed door within recessed porch. Small C18 2-light casement in right return. The first internal binding beam from the front is deeply chamfered with step stops, with a solid knee 0.13 metre wide at the left end. To right of it are mortices for a similar knee and post, and mortices and wattle groove for a former studded partition, indicating that originally there was a through-passage to the left and a small enclosed area to the front right, probably a shop. A C20 grate is installed in the front of a large stack, probably C16/17. The second beam is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, a late C16/early C17 introduction, probably the inserted floor of an open hall. Plain joists of horizontal section are exposed in part of the rear bay, the others plastered to the soffits. Thin joists of vertical section in rear extension. Early C19 winder stair with moulded handrail, turned balusters and altered newels. Chamfered internal tiebeam with step stops, with mortices for missing arch-braces to it. Inserted attic floor with plain joists of vertical section, and early hardwood floorboards. RCHM 56.

Listing NGR: TL8491522545