Site Event/Activity record ECC3592 - A historic building survey of buildings behind the North Hill Hotel, 51 North Hill, Colchester, 2010
Location
Location | Buildings behind the North Hill Hotel, 51 North Hill, Colchester |
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Grid reference | Centred TL 993 253 (12m by 15m) |
Map sheet | TL92NE |
County | ESSEX |
Non Parish Area | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd
Date
June 2010
Description
A timber-framed building at the rear of the North Hill Hotel (formerly the Peveril Hotel) was surveyed at English Heritage Level 3 in advance of planned alterations to provide more accommodation and communal space for its residents. <1>
The survey revealed the presence of a previously unrecognised hall-house and documentary research showed when and why part of this building had been converted into a 'warehouse'. The building originated as a 15th- or early 16th-century open hall-house of at least two bays with a cross-passage and (presumably) a two-storeyed service end of uncertain shape and plan. The hall-house appears to have been converted into a lobby-entrance house in the 17th century when a floor was inserted into the hall to create a two-storey block and a brick chimney stack was built in the cross-passage to heat the new rooms in the old lobby and service end. The latter was replaced, perhaps at the same time, by the present three-bayed crosswing which has a jettied south gable wall. Two extensions were added later: a small two-storeyed extension perhaps of the 18th century and a single-storeyed 19th-century building which was probably a stable.
Around 1876-7, the crosswing was adapted with the insertion of large windows and double doors on both floors to create a warehouse-cum-workshop for upholsterer Charles Day. A few years later, Day had to sell up because of debt and his warehouse became a workshop for the manufacturing of boots and shoes, firstly by George Pung Hazel, then by G P Halls, and finally by Rose and Co Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, a company which primarily produced (and still produces) advertising calendars.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SCC72698 Historic Building Recording: Crummy, Philip and Shackle, Richard. 2010. Survey of buildings behind the North Hill Hotel, 51 North Hill, Colchester, Essex June 2010. CAT Report 552.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- MCC9275 Buildings behind the North Hill Hotel, 51 North Hill, Colchester (Building)
Record last edited
Jan 4 2016 8:40AM