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Houchin's Farmhouse

A Grade II* Listed Building in Coggeshall, Essex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8791 / 51°52'44"N

Longitude: 0.7166 / 0°42'59"E

OS Eastings: 587084

OS Northings: 223548

OS Grid: TL870235

Mapcode National: GBR QKG.20V

Mapcode Global: VHKG2.C1Q9

Plus Code: 9F32VPH8+JJ

Entry Name: Houchin's Farmhouse

Listing Date: 2 May 1953

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1123187

English Heritage Legacy ID: 116035

ID on this website: 101123187

Location: Broad Green, Braintree, Essex, CO6

County: Essex

District: Braintree

Civil Parish: Coggeshall

Traditional County: Essex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex

Church of England Parish: Coggeshall with Markshall

Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford

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Description


TL 82 SE COGGESHALL

6/4 Houchin's Farmhouse
2.5.53

- II*

House. Circa 1590, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red plain tiles. Main range of 5 bays aligned E-W, with central stack;
3 storeys and cellar. 3-bay service range to N of W end with one axial stack;
one storey and attic. All windows are C20 metal casements, including 5 in
hipped dormers in service range. Double half-glazed doors to S. The S and W
elevations of the main range are jettied at first and second floors. The roof
of the main range has a gablet hip at the W end, a gable at the E end, which is
tile-hung; stack rebuilt above roof level in C20, with 7 octagonal shafts. The
service range has a half-hip to the N. Carved grotesque figures below both
jetties at the SW corner; moulded fascias to all jetties. Cement-rendered
plinth approximately one metre high. Shaped sprockets below eaves. Jowled
posts. Curved tension braces trenched inside heavy studding, nailed at the
crossings. In both ranges, chamfered binding and bridging beams with lamb's
tongue stops, joists plastered to the soffits, original related floorboards.
Some posts in both ranges have ovolo-moulded jowls or ledges. One transverse
beam in the service range is re-used from a jettied building. The main range
has a clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing. Blocked original windows
with unrefined ovolo-moulded jambs and mullions on the second floor; others in
the attic complete with diamond saddle bars. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in
the wallplates of both ranges. The W ground-floor room of the main range has a
wide wood-burning hearth with ovolo-moulded jambs and depressed arch, stripped
of plaster. The E ground-floor room is fully lined with original or early C17
oak panelling; C20 grate. Early C19 quarter-turn stair with pine handrail and
stick balusters. The frame is illustrated and described in C.A. Hewett, The
Development of Carpentry, 1200-1700, an Essex study, 1969, 144, 154, 200, 202-3,
207, 210. RCHM (Feering) 2.


Listing NGR: TL8708423548

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