GUEST HOUSE OF COGGESHALL ABBEY

GUEST HOUSE OF COGGESHALL ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1307071
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
List Entry Name:: GUEST HOUSE OF COGGESHALL ABBEY
Statutory Address:: GUEST HOUSE OF COGGESHALL ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1307071
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: GUEST HOUSE OF COGGESHALL ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: GUEST HOUSE OF COGGESHALL ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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:: GUEST HOUSE OF COGGESHALL ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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 85535 22207

Details

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL ABBEY LANE (south side)

9/13 Guest-house of 2.5.53 Coggeshall Abbey (formerly listed as the Chapel of St. Catherine, Coggeshall Abbey)

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Guest-house of Cistercian abbey, now boiler-house. Circa 1190, altered in late C16. Walls of flint rubble containing brick, with dressings of brick, raised with re-used original brick and tile; gables timber framed and weatherboarded; roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Rectangular plan aligned NNE-SSW (described here by the cardinal points) with axial stack, 1984. S wall demolished for post-Dissolution use as a barn. The W and E walls have each 4 lancet windows recessed in 2 plain orders; all are partly repaired, and 3 on the E are partly blocked. The N wall has at the W end a doorway with round arch and rear-arch, with rounded external arrises formed of moulded bricks, rebated internally for a door. The quoins are mainly of brick 0.33 x 0.15 x 0.045 metre, and are all partly repaired. Internally there are 5 recesses for seats in each of the W and E walls, and 2 in the N wall, all with round arches and similar rounded arrises; 2 on the W are partly filled with later masonry, but otherwise unaltered; 2 on th E are partly filled, and one is repaired; one on the N has lost its brick arch; the other has an internal pier of later brickwork, and is obstructed by a boiler flue of 1984. The N wall is reduced in thickness in 2 stages, with flat ledges; there is no evidence of beam-sockets for a floor. The walls have been raised approximately 0.50 metre in the late C16. The late C16 roof is in 2 bays, of clasped purlin construction with arched wind-braces, rafters of horizontal section, with bird-mouthed collars at the half-bay positions, complete. The amendment notice of 30 December 1958 identified this building as the Chapel of St Catherine; J.S. Gardner cites documentary evidence of 1464 that the Chapel was N of the (demolished) Nave (Coggeshall Abbey and its early brickwork, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, third series 18, 1955, 19-32 and plates 5-14). Gardner states from excavated evidence that the S wall originally had a doorway in line with that in the N wall, with a porch. Between them a floor of tiles on edge has been exposed, approximately 0.80 metre below present ground level. RCHM (Little Coggeshall) 2. A.M.

Listing NGR: TL8553522207

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Legacy System number:: 116044
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Journal of The British Archaeological Association' in Journal of The British Archaeological Association, , Vol. 18, (1955), 19-32

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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.