ROYAL OAK

ROYAL OAK, 38, STONEHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123101
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: ROYAL OAK
Statutory Address:: ROYAL OAK, 38, STONEHAM STREET

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Date:: 2005-11-09
Reference:: IOE01/14738/04
Rights:: © Mr M W Keogh. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1123101
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: ROYAL OAK
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL OAK, 38, STONEHAM STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL OAK, 38, STONEHAM STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Coggeshall
National Grid Reference:: TL 84954 22787

Details

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL STONEHAM STREET (east side)

9/198 No. 38 (Royal Oak) 31.10.66 (formerly listed as no. 38 (Royal Oak Cottage))

GV II*

House. Early C17, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with stack in rear part of second bay from left end, emerging at the ridge. C18/19 internal stack at right end, truncated below roof. 2-storey porch in front of lobby-entrance in front of main stack. C19 single-storey wing to rear right, of red brick and weatherboarding, roofed with red clay pantiles, and C20 stack to right of it. 2 storeys, cellar and attics. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights with crown glass; one to right of the porch has 'Royal Oak' inscribed twice on the inside of the glass; and one C20 similar sash. First floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights and one C19 horizontal sash of 12+12 lights, all with crown glass; one small fixed light with diamond leading. Simple moulded eaves cornice. Above the porch a gable over the stair has one C19 cast iron casement of 6 lights. C19 door with 2 lights in original porch, jettied to front and both sides, with C19 scrolled brackets. The front and rear elevations are plastered, both gable ends weatherboarded. Square chimney with corner pilasters. Unjowled posts, heavy studding with primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in both wallplates. Moulded binding beams to each side of the chimney bay, plain on the sides facing it, and moulded axial bridging beams in 3 bays; plain joists of vertical section. Large wood-burning hearth facing to left with moulded mantel beam, jambs and rear surface rebuilt with C20 bricks. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right with roll-moulded jambs and depressed arch, and rounded rear splays. Original stair in the lobby-entrance from ground to attic, with small open well, moulded handrails, inserted stick balusters and ball finials, and 2 carved pendants on the first floor; 3 newels in attic cut off. On the first floor 2 wide wood-burning hearths with chamfered jambs and depressed arches. Moulded bridging beams in the bays each side of the chimney bay, chamfered bridging beam with lamb's tongue stops in right bay; plain joists of vertical section. C17 moulded and panelled internal doors. Clasped purlin roof with arched collars and straight intermediate collars. This house has retained an exceptional number of original features, and structurally is unaltered. (Described and illustrated in C.A. Hewett, Some East Anglian Prototypes for Early Timber Houses in America, Post-Medieval Archaeology 3, 1969, 104-5, 107, 111, but wrongly identified as no. 43, Stoneham Street, with wrong grid reference). RCHM 37

Listing NGR: TL8495422787

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Legacy System number:: 116229
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Post Medieval Archaeology' in Post Medieval Archaeology, (1969), 104-5,107
'Post Medieval Archaeology' in Post Medieval Archaeology, (1969), 111

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.