6 AND 8, WEST STREET

6 AND 8, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305947
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:
6 AND 8, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:
6 AND 8, WEST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305947
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
6 AND 8, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 1:
6 AND 8, WEST 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
6 AND 8, WEST 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:
TL8493622547

Details

TL 8422-8522
9/202
31.10.66
COGGESHALL

WEST STREET
(north side)

Nos. 6 and 8


GV
II

House, now divided into 2 houses. C18, extended in C19 and C20. Timber framed,
plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing S with 2
rear stacks, and wing to rear left. C19 2-storey extension beyond of red brick
with external stack at end. Single-storey lean-to extension to right of main
range, roofed with corrugated iron; C20 2-storey extension to rear of it, with
flat roof; and C20 single-storey extension beyond. 2 storeys and attics.
5-window range of C18 sashes of 12 lights with some crown glass. Central
8-panel door, 6 panels fielded and the top panels glazed, in doorcase with
panelled jambs and soffit, rusticated pilasters, triglyph frieze with 4 bronze
medallions, and moulded pediment with winged bronze ornament; 2 stone steps.
Plain band at first-floor level. Moulded wooden cornice, extending round both
returns. Plywood parapet. Hipped roof. No. 8 comprises the left ground-floor
room and the left rear wing; no. 6 comprises the remainder. The right side of
the left rear wing is faced with painted brick on the ground floor, plastered
above. One C19 sash of 10+10 lights and one of 6+6 lights. One C19 plain
boarded door in right side of brick extension beyond. The central entrance-hall
has been blocked part-way along with a 4-panel door and plain overlight of 3
lights. Other internal doors are 6-panel. Boxed axial beams over both
ground-floor rooms and hall. C20 grate in right room, other not inspected.
Boxed axial beams over both first-floor rooms, and boxed transverse beams
visible over right room, not over left. 2-panel pine door to original attic
stair. Original hardwood floorboards in attics. The frames only of the
ground-floor front windows are reported to be renewed.


Listing NGR: TL8493622547

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
116233
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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