Description

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL MARKET HILL (west side)

9/144 No. 2 (Surridge's) 31.10.66 (formerly listed in Nos. 1/2)

GV II

House, now offices. Late C16, altered in C17, early C19 and C20. Timber framed, mainly plastered, with C18 facade to rear of red and blue bricks, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3-bay parallelogram plan with axis parallel with street frontage. Large C16 stack to rear, enclosed by 2-bay rear wing, early C17. 2 storeys and cellar. Underbuilt jetty with C20 double shopfront, recessed central glazed door, and at right end, 6-panel door with plain overlight, under continuous fascia. First floor, 2 sashes of 16 lights in early C19 style. Roof hipped at left end, continuous with roof of no. 3 at right (item 9/145, q.v.). The rear facade is of red brick in Flemish bond, part of the lower storey re-pointed, with recessed panels of blue headers, a moulded red brick band at first-floor level, and a plastered eaves cornice, approximately 0.40 metre higher than the timber-framed structure, with plastered short returns; on each floor one early C19 sash of 16 lights with segmental gauged arch, or C20 replica. Roof of rear wing hipped. On the ground floor a studded partition between the left and middle bays has been removed; chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered axial bridging beams, unstopped, and plain joists of horizontal section. 2 C20 brick piers support the intersections, and the brick stack has been reduced in size and faced with C20 bricks in stretcher bond. An inserted stud in the rear wall blocks the original passage-way through at the right end. On the first floor of the main range the smoke-blackened end truss of a former open hall is exposed in the right wall, with paired display braces trenched into the studding. Jowled posts. One of 2 original arched braces to the left internal tiebeam remains, and one imitation brace, nailed. Chamfered axial bridging beams unstopped, and plain joists of vertical section. Simple splayed and tenoned scarf in front wallplate. The rear hearth, c.1600, has moulded and stopped jambs and moulded depressed arch, plastered, and an original mantel beam above; concave interior. The rear wing has jowled posts, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and some exposed studding on the upper floor. The ground floor has been extensively styled in the C18 with boxed beams and cyma mouldings of pine, damaged by sand-blasting. On the upper floor is a doorway from the main range to the rear wing with bolection-moulded frame and fielded panelling, all of pine. Chamfered bridging beam with lamb's tongue and notch stops, plain joists or vertical section. Part of RCHM 51.

Listing NGR: TL8500622599

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