Description

TL 82 NW COGGESHALL NUNTY'S LANE
(north-west side)

2/162 Great Nunty's
Farmhouse

- II

House. C16 and C17. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain
tiles. 2-bay main range facing SE, C16, with external stack at left end, mainly
rebuilt in C20. 3-bay crosswing at right end, extending to front and back, with
stack in middle bay against main range, C17. Main range of one storey with
attics, crosswing of 2 storeys. C19 single-storey lean-to extension in rear
left angle, of painted brick roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. Ground
floor, 2 C20 casements and one sash. First floor, one C20 casement and one more
in gabled dormer. Plain boarded door. 3 octagonal shafts, truncated. Roof of
crosswing has a gablet hip at rear. Jowled posts. The main range has plain
joists of horizontal section arranged longitudinally. The central tiebeam has
been severed for a heavy framed doorway inserted in the C17. The crosswing has
chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical
section jointed to them with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. Wide
wood-burning hearth facing forward, with cupboard in left jamb complete with
panelled door. Similar hearth facing backwards, reduced for coal-burning grate
by insertion of a brick flank and cupboard. C17 and C18 internal doors.
Original hardwood floorboards. In the rear bay of the crosswing the upper room
is open to the roof, ceiled to the rafters. RCHM (Pattiswick) 8.

Listing NGR: TL8240726422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26416219

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)