10 AND 12, EAST STREET

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TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (south side)

9/107 Nos. 10 and 12 31.10.66

GV II

House, now 2 shops and houses. Late C14, extended in C16, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Half-H plan facing N, comprising 2-bay main range, 3-bay service crosswing to right, 2-bay parlour/solar crosswing to left. Internal stack in right of front bay of right crosswing, external stack to left of rear bay of left crosswing. C16 2-bay extension to rear of right crosswing, C19 axial stack at the junction, and C20 2-storey flat-roofed extension beyond. 2 storeys. No. 10, early C19 shopfront altered in C20, with 6 reeded pilasters with paterae, early C19 half- glazed door, and blocked overlight with geometrical tracery. No. 12, C20 shopfront with central glazed door. First floor, 4 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. Wide passage through hall range, to right of centre. No. 10 comprises the original cross-entry, the service crosswing, and extensions to the rear; no. 12 comprises the remainder. The right crosswing has an underbuilt jetty with one plain bracket, plain joists of horizontal section jointed to the chamfered binding beam with low-central tenons, and one of 2 service doorways with a chamfered 4-centred arched head. In the rear wall is a blocked unglazed window with 3 diamond mortices and a shutter groove. Crownpost roof with thick axial braces and one of 2 thick down-braces to tiebeam. The rear extension has curved braces trenched inside heavy studding, 2 bridging beams in each bay, and double- ogee moulded joists of horizontal section. Roof inaccessible, but reported to be original. In the main range the axial beam of the C16 inserted floor is unchamfered near the right end, implying a former stack, elsewhere chamfered with step stops. In the left bay the joists are exposed, of horizontal section and chamfered with step stops, apparently with some original red paint. The roof of the main range has been raised approximately 1.20 metres in the C17, with a face-halved and bladed scarf in the upper front wallplate. Early C19 2-turn stair with turned newels and stick balusters. Display bracing of left crosswing exposed in main range. The left crosswing has an underbuilt jetty with a shutter groove in the jetty plate, joists similar to those of the right crosswing, and a parlour doorway with plain head and mortice for draught screen. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in right wallplate. Crownpost roof, unceiled, with braces similar to those of the right crosswing but all present. The collar-purlin has a splayed scarf with undersquinted butts, an unusual combination with the wallplate scarf, indicating the progression from the former to the latter type where more complex stresses required a stronger joint. RCHM 71.

Listing NGR: TL8506722554

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