68, EAST STREET

68, EAST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123150
Date first listed:
02-May-1953
List Entry Name:
68, EAST STREET
Statutory Address:
68, EAST STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123150
Date first listed:
02-May-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
68, EAST STREET
Statutory Address 1:
68, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
68, 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 85430 22619

Details

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (south side)

9/118 No. 68 (formerly 2.5.53 listed as White House)

GV II

House. Late C18/early C19, altered in later C19. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing N, with central stack, and truncated stack near left front corner. Rear wing at right end with end stack, and later extension beyond. Later C19 rear wing to left of this wing. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 4 early C19 sashes of 16 lights, with crown glass. First floor, 3 similar sashes, one of 12 lights over central door, and blank aperture at right end. 6-panel door, bottom panels flush, middle panels fielded, top panels glazed, in plaster rusticated doorcase with engaged fluted columns, triglyph frieze and moulded pediment. Railings and double gates along full length of front, returning to house at right end and attached, comprising 6 round cast iron stanchions with enlarged heads and fluted friezes, 6 plain iron uprights with spikes, 2 rails, fleur-de-lis finials and hoops; gates in similar style. Right return (garden elevation), ground floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 12 lights and one of 16, with crown glass; first floor, 2 similar sashes of 12 lights, and one with a semi-circular head. All but this last have C19 louvred external shutters. Central door similar to that at the front, in doorcase with fluted pilasters and moulded flat canopy. Weatherboarded on left return and rear elevation, the remainder plastered. The interior retains hinged internal shutters to all ground-floor rooms, 6-panel doors, early C19 straight stair, and other original features. In the main range 2 fireplaces on each side of the central entrance-hall have flues which join over an arch. In the right rear wing a C16 stop-chamfered transverse beam appears to be an introduction; no other C16 structure has been identified.

Listing NGR: TL8543022619

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
116149
Legacy System:
LBS

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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