CAXTON HOUSE

CAXTON HOUSE, 3, 5 AND 7, MARKET END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169881
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: CAXTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CAXTON HOUSE, 3, 5 AND 7, MARKET END

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Date:: 2001-12-13
Reference:: IOE01/06224/05
Rights:: © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169881
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: CAXTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CAXTON HOUSE, 3, 5 AND 7, MARKET END

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CAXTON HOUSE, 3, 5 AND 7, MARKET END

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 85017 22552

Details

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL MARKET END (south side)

9/137 Nos. 3, 5 and 7 31.10.66 (Caxton House)

GV II

Inn, now house, shop and Post Office. Late C17, altered in C18 and late C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Square plan facing NNW, with 2 internal stacks. 3 storeys and cellars. Ground floor, pair of late C19 shops with central door to house. 2 splayed bays of 3 lights, panelled below, under joint fascia. Each shop has a glazed door with a plain overlight. 4 panelled pilasters with heavy carved and scrolled brackets to fascia, with moulded cornice. Central 6-panel door, the bottom panels flush, raised ovals on the others, and plain overlight, with similar panelling in each jamb. First floor, 2 C18 splayed bays of sashes of 8-12-8 lights, and central sash of 12 lights. The splayed bays continue above, with on the second floor 3 sashes of 4-6-4 lights in each, and a central sash of 6 lights. Dentilled and moulded cornice with triglyph frieze, returning at each end, and plain parapet following the line of the bays. Hipped roof. Recorded as The Crown Inn in 1692, a brewery in 1792, and a printing house in 1889 (G.F. Beaumont, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, 1890, 232, and J.S. Gardner (ed.), Coggeshall, Essex, 1951, 32, 38).

Listing NGR: TL8501722552

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Legacy System number:: 116166
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beaumont, GF , A History of Coggeshall in Essex, (1890), 232
Gardner, J S, Coggeshall Essex, (1951), 32, 38

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.