Description

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET
(north side)

9/95 No. 29 (Swan House)
31.10.66 (formerly listed with
Nos. 25 and 27 as one
item)

GV II

House. Late C14, altered in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed
with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing S, with C19 internal stack at
right end. 2-bay parlour/solar crosswing to left, with C18 stack in rear bay,
and C19/20 extension to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 4 C19/20 sashes of 16
lights. First floor, one early C19 sash of 12 lights, and one C19/20 sash of
4+8 lights. C20 glazed door in right return. The crosswing stands slightly
forward of the hall, having an underbuilt jetty, and has been re-roofed in the
C19 on the opposite alignment, connecting with the roof of nos. 25 and 27 to
left (item 9/94, q.v.). The hall has display bracing trenched inside the
studding at both ends, smoke-blackened. At the right end 2 heavy bay posts (one
mainly concealed by the stack) indicate that the former crosswing to the right
was of 3 bays (formerly The Swan Inn, demolished). At the left end, peg-holes
for former 'high end' bench, original doorway into parlour blocked by C18 stack,
some studs removed to make another; cambered tiebeam chamfered with step stops,
part of one arched brace to it, the other missing. Front wallplate replaced,
rear part of hall demolished. C17 inserted floor comprising a chamfered
transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section. Roof
rebuilt in C19, with much re-used timber. In the crosswing most of the joists
in the front bay are original, plain and of heavy square section, jointed to the
binding beam with central tenons; all the joists of the rear bay removed,
leaving the severed tenons. Grooves for sliding shutters in the re-sited jetty
plate. Curved braces trenched outside the studding, a blocked unglazed window
in the front bay of the upper storey, and an edge-halved and bridled scarf in
the left wallplate (all visible from no. 27, item 9/94). The hearth has a
rounded back and a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. A moulded
beam in the rear extension is introduced, reported to be part of a renovation in
1978 by D.H. Lamprell. Formerly part of The Swan Inn, since 1731 (G.F.
Beaumont, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, 1890, 195 and 240).

Listing NGR: TL8514022602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26416235

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