Description

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL WEST STREET (south side)

9/235 Nos. 95 to 103 (odd)

GV II

House, now 3 houses. Late C16, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing N, with central stack. Full-length catslide extension to rear. C20 single-storey extension with flat roof to rear of nos. 97 and 99 (at left end). C20 2-storey lean-to extension with felt roof to rear of no. 103 (at right end). C20 extension to left of no. 97, comprising car port with rooms over. 2 storeys with attics. 4-window range of early C19 sashes of 16 lights, with some crown glass. 2 C20 replicas in left extension. One C19 casement in gabled dormer in no. 99, and another in no. 103. Four 4-panel doors, the lower panels flush, grouped in pairs with joint flat canopies on profiled brackets. (Nos. 101 and 103 are combined, the door of no. 103 disused). In the left gable, above the car port extension, the studding and collar of the clasped purlin roof is exposed; and some studding is exposed in the car port, with C20 brick nogging. C20 casements to rear, including some in flat-roofed dormers, first floor and attic. Jowled posts. Diamond mortices for former unglazed windows in rear girts and wallplates, now enclosed by catslide extension. No evidence of unglazed windows at front, so probably built in the period 1575-90 when glazing was being generally adopted in conspicuous situations. Near-straight tension braces trenched inside studs. Unchamfered axial beams, plain joists of square section. Above first floor, chamfered axial beams, unstopped, with plain joists of vertical section. C20 hearths. Blocked original doorways between bays on both floors, with straight heads. Unusual stepped and tenoned scarf in front wallplate of no. 99. Clasped purlin roof with arched wind-braces.

Listing NGR: TL8429822418

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