Description

TL 8428-8528 EARLS COLNE HIGH STREET (north side)

8/80 Nos. 83 and 85 21.6.62 (formerly listed as House and Shop (Moy))

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as nos. 81 and 85. House, now house and shop. Early C15, altered in mid-C16 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with red plain tiles. Hall house with C16 axial stack in right bay, and 2 crosswings, originally jettied to street, now underbuilt. Left crosswing now oversailed by roof of nos. 79 and 81 (item 8/79, q.v.). Floor inserted in hall and roof raised c.1540. 2 storeys. 3-window range of C20 casements, and small C20 shopfront in right wing. Half-glazed door. Stack rebuilt at top in late C19. Stop-chamfered beams. Some smoke-blackened rafters re-used in raised roof. This property and nos. 79 and 81 were under joint ownership for much of their history, and have been roofed and sub-divided and re-combined without regard for the divisions of the original structure (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 42-3). RCHM 4.

Listing NGR: TL8593828873

External Links

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