2 AND 4, WEST STREET
2 AND 4, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337959
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 4, WEST STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07240/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337959
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 4, 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.
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:
- 2 AND 4, 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:
- TL 84960 22556
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL WEST STREET (north side)
9/201 Nos. 2 and 4 31.10.66
GV II
House, now 2 houses. Late C14, altered in C19. Timber framed, partly faced with brick, plastered and weatherboarded. Main range of 2 bays facing S, with C19 internal stack at left end. To right, 3-bay crosswing (originally longer) with C19 external stack to right, enclosed by no. 10, biarket End (item 9/136, q.v.). 2 high storeys with attics. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 12 lights in segmental arches. First floor, 3 similar sashes in moulded architraves. Underbuilt jetty, faced with plastered brick to first-floor level. No. 2 has a 6-panel door, bottom panels flush, top panels glazed, no. 4 has a C20 door, both in segmental arches. Continuous roof half-hipped at left end. Closely-spaced plain joists of horizontal section, jointed to binding beams with low-central tenons (C.A. Hewett, English Historic Carpentry, 1980, figure 291). No. 4 has a plain brace 0.14 metre wide to the axial beam, and an underbuilt jetty at the back also. Storey heights, 3 metres and 2.29 metres respectively. In the rear bay of no. 2, the joists to left of the bridging beam are moulded; the joists to right are plastered. A further bay extending to the rear is reported to have been demolished c.1930. No. 4 has at the rear of the upper storey a blocked doorway with 4-centred head, believed to have been to a former stair tower. Cambered tiebeams with mortices for crownposts. In no. 2 is a length of moulded and crenellated cornice, nailed to right wall of front ground- floor room when inspected in June 1987. A similar length of carved timber has been removed from no. 4, now stored in a shed at the rear. On the first floor of no. 4 a partition wall has been faced with C18 beaded pine boards; other similar boards have been removed to a partition on the ground floor. In no. 4, on the ground floor, double-ogee moulded joists (reported to have come from a demolished house at Sudbury, Suffolk) have been used as posts and to frame a C20 partition. Other introduced features. Original floorboards. RCHM 58.
Listing NGR: TL8496022556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116232
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewett, C A, English Historic Carpentry, (1980), 291
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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