Commercial building at 65 West Street, Coggeshall (EHER 80128)

A small commercial building at 65 West Street, Coggeshall was surveyed in 2021. The building is timber framed with two bays and was probably built some time between 1853 and 1875 and functioned as a cart shed.

Historic building survey. November 2021. This building was built in timber frame of two bays measuring 11.25 m long by 4.30m wide. It was built in two phases in the 19th can 20th centuries. The north and west exterior walls are all covered in textured and painted concrete cement render. The east wall is clad in painted feather-edge boarding as is the exposed south-facing gable end wall, seen above the later flat roof extension; a small window is blocked off at eaves height suggesting the building was lit from this position which also suggests that there was no ceiling originally. The roof is a shallow pitch, covered in slate tiles, which look to be the original covering; these would date from around the 1860's onwards. The windows and door appear to be modern replacements, dating from the 20th century. The interior of this building is completely covered in fibre boarding with mock beams attached to the walls. However, it was possible to see the upper portion of the timber frame from the loft which showed the structure to be of roughly hewn, pine or possibly elm studs of variable sizes. The walls supported a shallow A-frame truss roof with collars, typical of a Victorian building. <1>