The Old Bull

Details

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL CHURCH STREET (north-west side)

9/45 Nos. 45 and 47 (The 31.10.66 Old Bull) (formerly listed as No. 45 (Verandah) House with shop, and No. 47 (Myrtledene))

GV II*

House, now hairdressing salon and house. Early C14, C16 and C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2 bays remain of an aisled hall of 3 bays, facing SE, set back from the street by the width of the former front aisle. C19 stack to rear, enclosed by C17 wing of 2 bays with hipped roof. 3-bay crosswing to left, projecting forwards to the street, with internal stack, and 2-bay extension to rear, C16, with C20 external stack to right. C19 2-storey lean-to extension between the rear wings, and C19 single-storey extensions to rear right. 2 storeys with attics. No. 45 has a splayed shop window and C20 glazed door below a verandah supported on 2 early C19 elaborately pierced cast iron brackets, with a cast iron railing of linked circles; on the first floor one late C19 tripartite sash of 2-4-2 lights; in the attic gable one C19 casement. No. 47 has one C20 casement on the ground floor, 2 on the first floor, and 2 C19 casements in gabled dormers; at left end, C20 door with canopy on brackets; at right end, C18/19 wide plain door to passage through. The left elevation of the left rear wing has some exposed framing, with curved braces trenched outside the studding. The hall has jowled posts, chamfered with step stops, and 2 cambered tiebeams, one curved brace remaining to the open truss at the right end; earlier there was a third bay to the right, containing a cross-entry, and a service bay beyond. Straight arcade braces of square section interconnect, one terminating on the other (as at Bacons End Cottages, Great Canfield, item 3/6). Crownpost roof, the rafters and collars almost complete and heavily smoke-blackened, but the central crownpost and most of the collar-purlin missing. Pegs still in the collars formerly secured them to the collar-purlin, an early feature. At the left end of the rear aisle one aisle tie remains, grooved for wattle and daub, with a straight brace with an open notched lap joint to it. At the right end the aisled construction is visible externally from the rear of no. 49. Mid-C16 inserted floor comprising an axial beam and 2 bridging beams to it, and joists of horizontal section arranged transversely, all chamfered with step stops. At the right end an C18/19 brick wall divides off part of the ground floor to form a foot access to the rear. Early C17 attic floor with chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue and notch stops, connecting with tiebeams. The crosswing is a later construction on the site of the former parlour/solar bay, probably C16, but almost wholly lined with modern materials. Formerly The Bull Inn, from 1731, and earlier known as Cocke-atte-Hilles (G.F. Beaumont, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, 1890, 237, and Essex Record Office, B.2981). RCHM 13.

Listing NGR: TL8515922761

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Sources

Books and journals
Beaumont, GF, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, (1890), 237

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