Site Event/Activity record ECC2244 - Pevsner survey of Bourne Mill, Colchester, 1954

Location

Location Bourne Mill, Colchester
Grid reference TM 0056 2384 (point)
Map sheet TM02SW
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Pevsner, Nikolaus (Mr)

Date

1954

Map

Description

Survey of Bourne Mill by Pevsner 'A delightful piece of late Elizabethan playfulness, built in 1591 probably as a fishing lodge. It is one-storied, of stone, with mullioned windows, and has two wildly oversized gables of the utmost exuberance. They go up in convex and concave curves and carry four pairs of obelisks, each one a tall polygonal chimney shaft. On the side opposite the entrance in the C19, when the house was used as a water-mill, a weather boarded hoist loft was added.'<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Serial: Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: Essex. p145.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Bourne Mill, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

Mar 17 2016 8:53AM

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