Herrings
HERRINGS, 20, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337954
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Herrings
- Statutory Address:
- HERRINGS, 20, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337954
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Herrings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERRINGS, 20, CHURCH 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:
- HERRINGS, 20, CHURCH 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 85108 22654
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL CHURCH STREET (south-east side)
9/56 No. 20 (Herrings) 31.10.66
GV II
House. C16 or earlier, altered in C18, renovated 1951. Timber framed, plastered with some weatherboarding, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 2 bays facing NW, foaming a parallelogram plan, wiht stack to rear of left bay, and long range beyond, with 2 axial stacks. C20 single-storey extension of rear of right bay, and conservatory beyond. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 C20 sashes of 12 lights and bowed oriel between them of 24 panes, replacing shop window. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 12 lights with crown glass. Ashlared plaster. Plain parapet. Half-glazed 4-panel door in left return, in introduced doorcase with fluted and panelled jambs and moulded pediment. All the side windows (to Swan Yard) are C19 and C20. Underbuilt jetty to front. Chamfered beams with plain and lamb's tongue stops. In the rear wing, exposed plain joists of vertical section. In right wallplate of rear wing, mortices for diamond mullions. Jowled posts. Introduced features, including an eared doorcase with Greek key border and broken pediment, and a pine and gesso fireplace in Adam style. In the front right corner of the left upper room of the main range, an introduced C18 pine corner cupboard, now attached, with spheroid head, profiled shelves, and modern base. Deeds from 1703 in the possession of the owner. The 2 moulded posts reported by the RCHM (25) are not now apparent. The name of the site is recorded in 1394 (G.F. Beaumont, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, 1890, 121 and 238).
Listing NGR: TL8511322646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116087
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beaumont, GF, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, (1890), 121, 238
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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