Paycocke's House & Garden and The Fleece - West Street, Coggeshall - pub sign

The second National Trust property to visit in Coggeshall, Essex was Paycocke's House & Garden. Just a short walk away from the Grange Barn.

Paycocke's House and Gardens are a surviving example of a Tudor merchant's house and garden in Coggeshall, Essex, England. The house was built for Thomas Paycocke, a wealthy cloth merchant in Coggeshall. The house was very nearly destroyed in the 19th century, but was rescued and restored by Lord Noel Buxton in the early 20th century, before it was handed to the care of the National Trust.

The house has been described as an attractive half-timbered house, which is notable particularly for it's intricate woodwork and carvings.

Thomas Paycocke was a successful business-man in the later half of the 15th Century. He can be described as an artisan, having made his money in a skilled craft. The wool trade was the dominant economic force in East Anglia, including in the town of Coggeshall, and Paycocke capitalised on this. The house was built from a medieval hall as a place for him to live as well as a place to process wool. It would also have served as a status symbol in Coggeshall due to the intricate nature of some of the details of the house.

The house was built outwards from an existing medieval building, which was owned by Thomas Paycocke's father, John Paycocke, who had died in 1506. John Paycocke himself was a relatively wealthy man. Paycocke's is a house built in or around 1500 by John Paycocke. It was built as a wedding present for his son Thomas and daughter-in-law Margaret. initials T.P. and M.P. appear in the wood carvings that decorate the house.The land was left to his children, and Thomas Paycocke used the land to build the house in 1509. Records show that Thomas Paycocke remained a wealthy man. His will shows £1500 was left in cash bequests, not including goods or property. This is equivalent to roughly £570,000 in modern prices.

The house stayed in the Paycocke's family until the last male heir died in 1584. The house was subsequently sold to the Buxton family. In 1746, whilst it was still owned by the Buxton family, the house was divided into three smaller cottages and sold off. The houses fell into a state of disrepair.

In 1906, the historian G F Beaumont protested against the destruction of Paycocke's House. The house was sold to Lord Noel Buxton. he was a descendant of the Buxton family who bought the house in the 16th Century. Buxton oversaw the restoration of the house, with a number of carvings restored. The house was left to the care of the National Trust.

The Fleece public house to the right of Paycock's House on West Street in Coggeshall.

Grade II* Listed Building

The Fleece Public House

Listing Text

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL WEST STREET
(south side)

9/228 No. 27 (The Fleece
2.5.53 Public House)
(formerly listed as
The Fleece Inn)

GV II*

House, now public house. C15 and early C17, altered in C18, C19 and C20.
Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4-bay main
range facing N with external stack to rear of left bay, early C17. To right,

C15 2-bay crosswing surviving from a former hall house on the site of the
present main range. C17 full-length 2-storey lean-to to rear of main range and
crosswing. C18 2-storey extension to rear of left end, roofed as a parallel
range, C20 single-storey wing to rear of it, and early C19 single-storey lean-to
extension to right of it, roofed with red clay pantiles. Early C19 single-
storey wing to rear of crosswing, extended to right in C20. 2 storeys. Full-
length jetty, and below it one C18 square bay of casements with pulvinated
frieze and brick below, casements altered; and 2 early C19 splayed bays of
sashes, respectively of 4-20-20-4 and 4-20-4 lights, with 5 simple pilasters,
continuous plain fascia and moulded shallow canopy. First floor, 3 early C19
tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights. Much crown glass. Mid-C18 half-glazed door

with 9 lights, 8 of original bullseye glass, one inscribed 'G. 1752',
transferred from an internal position. Double vehicle doors to passage through,
to left of crosswing. Pargetting on first floor, with C17/18 vine-leaf frieze
and roll-moulding below eaves, and modern date 1505, restored or modern designs
in panels below it. Scrolled wrought iron bracket for inn sign. In the vehicle
entry, at rear right, is a mid-C18 window of 12 fixed lights, one of original

bullseye glass. In the left elevation of the rear left wing is one mid-C18 sash
of 12 lights, re-set, and one early C19 sash of 16 lights. To the rear of the
rear lean-to is one early C19 sash of 10+10 lights. Framing is exposed
internally in the upper right wall of the crosswing, with wide curved tension
bracing trenched into the studs. The walls have been raised approximately one
metre in the early C17 rebuild, and the floor and jetty rebuilt; chamfered
transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. The main range has jowled
posts; the front left post has a carved and ovolo-moulded step supporting the
girt; chamfered binding and bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops, joists

plastered to the soffits. A ground-floor studded partition has been removed.
The upper storey is of unusual height, with similar beams and joists above. In
the front wall of it is one blocked original window in the main range, with one
ovolo mullion, the saddle bars missing, and a similar inserted window in the
crosswing. On each floor is an original wood-burning hearth with ovolo-moulded

jambs and depressed arch, and rear splays. The date 1505 in the modern
pargetting has no historical basis, derived only from Paycockes, to the left
(item 9/227, q.v.). Listed at the higher grade for exceptionally complete
details of the early C17 phase, and later exterior features. RCHM 86.

Listing NGR: TL8477622498

This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Description

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL WEST STREET
(south side)

9/228 No. 27 (The Fleece
2.5.53 Public House)
(formerly listed as
The Fleece Inn)

GV II*

House, now public house. C15 and early C17, altered in C18, C19 and C20.
Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4-bay main
range facing N with external stack to rear of left bay, early C17. To right,
C15 2-bay crosswing surviving from a former hall house on the site of the
present main range. C17 full-length 2-storey lean-to to rear of main range and
crosswing. C18 2-storey extension to rear of left end, roofed as a parallel
range, C20 single-storey wing to rear of it, and early C19 single-storey lean-to
extension to right of it, roofed with red clay pantiles. Early C19 single-
storey wing to rear of crosswing, extended to right in C20. 2 storeys. Full-
length jetty, and below it one C18 square bay of casements with pulvinated
frieze and brick below, casements altered; and 2 early C19 splayed bays of
sashes, respectively of 4-20-20-4 and 4-20-4 lights, with 5 simple pilasters,
continuous plain fascia and moulded shallow canopy. First floor, 3 early C19
tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights. Much crown glass. Mid-C18 half-glazed door
with 9 lights, 8 of original bullseye glass, one inscribed 'G. 1752',
transferred from an internal position. Double vehicle doors to passage through,
to left of crosswing. Pargetting on first floor, with C17/18 vine-leaf frieze
and roll-moulding below eaves, and modern date 1505, restored or modern designs
in panels below it. Scrolled wrought iron bracket for inn sign. In the vehicle
entry, at rear right, is a mid-C18 window of 12 fixed lights, one of original
bullseye glass. In the left elevation of the rear left wing is one mid-C18 sash
of 12 lights, re-set, and one early C19 sash of 16 lights. To the rear of the
rear lean-to is one early C19 sash of 10+10 lights. Framing is exposed
internally in the upper right wall of the crosswing, with wide curved tension
bracing trenched into the studs. The walls have been raised approximately one
metre in the early C17 rebuild, and the floor and jetty rebuilt; chamfered
transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. The main range has jowled
posts; the front left post has a carved and ovolo-moulded step supporting the
girt; chamfered binding and bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops, joists
plastered to the soffits. A ground-floor studded partition has been removed.
The upper storey is of unusual height, with similar beams and joists above. In
the front wall of it is one blocked original window in the main range, with one
ovolo mullion, the saddle bars missing, and a similar inserted window in the
crosswing. On each floor is an original wood-burning hearth with ovolo-moulded
jambs and depressed arch, and rear splays. The date 1505 in the modern
pargetting has no historical basis, derived only from Paycockes, to the left
(item 9/227, q.v.). Listed at the higher grade for exceptionally complete
details of the early C17 phase, and later exterior features. RCHM 86.

Listing NGR: TL8477622498

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Taken on: June 20, 2019

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