SPOONERS

SPOONERS, 30, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337955
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: SPOONERS
Statutory Address:: SPOONERS, 30, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337955
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: SPOONERS
Statutory Address 1:: SPOONERS, 30, CHURCH STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SPOONERS, 30, CHURCH STREET

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County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Coggeshall
National Grid Reference:: TL 85139 22688

Details

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL CHURCH STREET (south-east side)

9/61 No. 30 (Spooners) 31.10.66 (formerly listed as No. 30 (Tudor House))

GV II

House. C14, altered in C16 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with exposed imitation and integral framing and brick nogging at front, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing NW, with originally storeyed service bay to left and originally storeyed parlour/solar bay to right. Late C16 stack to rear of right bay of hall, and C18 stack in rear of service bay. Original or C15 wing to rear of service bay, and C20 single-storey extension beyond. C17 2-bay wing to rear of hall, and C20 wing to right of it. 2 storeys with attics. Ground floor, 7 C20 casements. First floor, 4 sashes of 4+8 lights. C20 door with imitation medieval tracery. The lower storey has C20 brick nogging and mainly C20 imitation studding, with many applied C20 carved features in the styles of various periods. The upper storey has original and replaced studding with wide braces trenched to the outside, and a C20 metal plaque with the date 1467. Steeply pitched roof. Jowled posts. Plain joists of horizontal section in the 2 end bays. Original doorway from hall into parlour, with chamfered ogee doorhead. Some original studding at service end of hall, the doorheads and infill removed. Imitation 4-centred doorhead at rear of hall, in the position of the original rear doorway. Late C16 inserted floor in hall, comprising chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, and chamfered joists of vertical section, some being modern replacements. Wide wood-burning hearth with jambs of 0.33 metre brickwork, re-pointed and repaired in C20, and inserted hearth on right side. On first floor of hall, original display bracing, diamond mortices of former hall window in rear wallplate (blocked by C16 stack), cambered central tiebeam (braces to it missing), wood-burning hearth. Grooves for sliding shutters in rear wallplate in both end bays. C17 ceiling with chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section, and original floor-boards. The original roof is largely intact, heavily smoke-blackened. Plain square central crownpost re-inforced with steel, and wine axial braces. Over solar, one of 2 axial braces. Over service bay, one of 2 down-braces, studs between this bay and hail missing. Original combed daub at left end of hall. The left rear wing has plain joists of horizontal section jointed with unrefined soffit tenons; at the right side, unglazed window with one original diamond mullion and 2 C20 replacements. At left, on the first floor, one C18 wrought iron casement. In the other rear wing, wide wood-burning hearth, re-pointed and repaired; chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section, damaged by sand-blasting. RCHM 27.

Listing NGR: TL8514022684

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.