Walpole House
WALPOLE HOUSE, 38, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169740
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Walpole House
- Statutory Address:
- WALPOLE HOUSE, 38, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169740
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Walpole House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALPOLE HOUSE, 38, 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:
- WALPOLE HOUSE, 38, 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 85135 22570
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (south side)
9/114 No. 38 (Walpole House) 31.10.66
GV II
House. C17, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles and slate. Main range facing N, with 2 early C19 axial stacks. C17 rear wing at left end, and early C18 extension beyond, with axial stack near front. Early C19 wing to rear right, with slate roof (the other roofs tiled). 2 storeys, unlit attic and cellar. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 10+10 lights (including glazed margins). First floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 12 lights. Central door with 6 fielded panels, in early C19 plaster doorcase with plain pilasters and entablature. Moulded eaves cornice. Stacks of gault brick. The entrance-hall has a pair of fluted pilasters with a semi- elliptical arch, early C19. Beams on ground floor boxed. In rear right wing, early C19 quarter-turn stair with turned newels, mahogany handrail and stick balusters. On the upper storey some of the timber frame is exposed, with unjowled posts and much re-used medieval timber. A simple splayed scarf with almost square abutments in each wallplate of the main range is in this case a late feature. Clasped purlin roof with pegged apices, and re-used rafters from a crownpost roof. The rear left wing has one joist inscribed 'R.B. 1716', and a gambrel roof with well-made bolted knees at the angles of the principal rafters.
Listing NGR: TL8513522570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116145
- 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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