Abbey View
ABBEY VIEW, 57 AND 59, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169545
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey View
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY VIEW, 57 AND 59, EAST STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-11-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/05885/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169545
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey View
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY VIEW, 57 AND 59, 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:
- ABBEY VIEW, 57 AND 59, 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 85261 22628
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (north side)
9/102 Nos. 57 and 59 (Abbey 31.10.66 View) (formerly listed separately as No. 57 (The Estate Office) and No. 59 (Abbey View))
GV II
House and tannery, now house and office. C18, extended and altered in C19. Timber framed and brick, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Long main range facing S, with axial stacks at the left end, at the junction of nos. 57 and 59, and an external stack at the right end. 2 adjacent short wings to rear of left part of no. 59, and lean-to extension with slate roof to right. Another lean-to extension with slate roof to right of main range, extending round rear corner. 2 longer wings to rear of right part of no. 57, and still longer wing to rear left, all adjacent. 2 storeys. No. 57 has a C19 facade of plastered brick; ground floor, 2 C20 splayed oriels of casements; first floor, 3 late C19 sashes of 4 lights with segmental arches; central C20 glazed door with gabled canopy on brackets. Plain band above first-floor windows. Hips of rear wings visible above low parapet. No. 59, ground floor, 2 late C19 splayed bays of sashes of 2-4-2 lights; first floor, 2 Venetian groups of late C19 sashes of 2-6-2 lights and central sash. Central 6-panel door, bottom panels flush, middle panels fielded, top panels glazed, in doorcase with panelled jambs and soffit, plaster pilasters with stone bases, entablature and pediment, moulded stone step, all early C19. Rusticated quoins; dentilled cornice with bracketed corbels, level with parapet of no. 57, and plain parapet, returning at right. All the windows of no. 59 have C19 louvred external shutters with wrought iron fastenings. The roof is reported to enclose the original roof. All the rear gables have late C19 carved bargeboards. C19 external plain shutters on 2 windows of right lean-to. In front of the door of no. 59, stone paving with 3 stone steps down to edge of road. Swinborne's Tannery in the C18 and C19, later The Blue Boar Inn (J.S. Gardner (ed.), Coggeshall, Essex, 1951, 31). The owner reports archaeological evidence of the former tannery. Deeds from the time of Charles I in the owner's possession.
Listing NGR: TL8526122628
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116134
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardner, J S, Coggeshall Essex, (1951), 31
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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