Description

TL 8422-8522
9/209
COGGESHALL

WEST STREET
(north side)

No. 20

GV
II

House. Early C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered and
weatherboarded with exposed imitation framing and brick nogging at front. 3
bays facing S with central stack, forming a lobby-entrance. Original or later
C17 wing to rear of right end, angled slightly to left, and adjacent C18 wing to
rear left, forming an almost square plan. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor,
2 C20 square oriels with rectangular leading. First floor, 3 C20 casements with
similar leading. C20 door. Full-length short jetty with ends of beams moulded,
imitation studding and C20 carved brackets below. Modern plaster crest and date
1560 above. C18 coving below eaves. Right return and rear elevation
weatherboarded. In rear elevation, on upper floor, one C17 2-light window with
ovolo-moulded mullion and surround, wrought iron casement with modern glass,
fixed light with diamond leading and handmade glass. Chamfered transverse and
axial beams with carved stops of unusual geometrical design, plain joists of
vertical section. Left ground-floor hearth blocked; the right hearth has
ovolo-moulded jambs and depressed arch, repaired and re-pointed with cement
mortar. Above the first floor the soffit of the left axial beam is hacked away;
the right axial beam is chamfered with stops similar to those below; exposed
plain joists of vertical section. Unjowled posts, face-halved and bladed scarf
in rear wallplate. Borrowed light between main range and rear left wing of 8
panes, some of handmade glass. Original floorboards in this wing. Clasped
purlin roof without wind-bracing. RCHM 54.

Listing NGR: TL8487422543

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527693

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