Swan House
SWAN HOUSE, 29, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123143
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Swan House
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOUSE, 29, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123143
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN HOUSE, 29, EAST STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN HOUSE, 29, EAST 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 85140 22602
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (north side)
9/95 No. 29 (Swan House) 31.10.66 (formerly listed with Nos. 25 and 27 as one item)
GV II
House. Late C14, altered in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing S, with C19 internal stack at right end. 2-bay parlour/solar crosswing to left, with C18 stack in rear bay, and C19/20 extension to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 4 C19/20 sashes of 16 lights. First floor, one early C19 sash of 12 lights, and one C19/20 sash of 4+8 lights. C20 glazed door in right return. The crosswing stands slightly forward of the hall, having an underbuilt jetty, and has been re-roofed in the C19 on the opposite alignment, connecting with the roof of nos. 25 and 27 to left (item 9/94, q.v.). The hall has display bracing trenched inside the studding at both ends, smoke-blackened. At the right end 2 heavy bay posts (one mainly concealed by the stack) indicate that the former crosswing to the right was of 3 bays (formerly The Swan Inn, demolished). At the left end, peg-holes for former 'high end' bench, original doorway into parlour blocked by C18 stack, some studs removed to make another; cambered tiebeam chamfered with step stops, part of one arched brace to it, the other missing. Front wallplate replaced, rear part of hall demolished. C17 inserted floor comprising a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section. Roof rebuilt in C19, with much re-used timber. In the crosswing most of the joists in the front bay are original, plain and of heavy square section, jointed to the binding beam with central tenons; all the joists of the rear bay removed, leaving the severed tenons. Grooves for sliding shutters in the re-sited jetty plate. Curved braces trenched outside the studding, a blocked unglazed window in the front bay of the upper storey, and an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the left wallplate (all visible from no. 27, item 9/94). The hearth has a rounded back and a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. A moulded beam in the rear extension is introduced, reported to be part of a renovation in 1978 by D.H. Lamprell. Formerly part of The Swan Inn, since 1731 (G.F. Beaumont, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, 1890, 195 and 240).
Listing NGR: TL8514022602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beaumont, GF, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, (1890), 195, 240
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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