Site Event/Activity record ECC3774 - Survey of pargetting at 44 St Johns Street, Colchester, 1986

Location

Location 44 St Johns Street, Colchester
Grid reference TL 99511 24982 (point)
Map sheet TL92SE
County ESSEX
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Shackle, R. (Mr)

Date

1986

Map

Description

The pargetting on 44 St Johns Street was recorded by Richard Shackle.<1> 44 St. Johns Street is a timber-framed building with a clay tile roof. It is a substantial building of at least three bays built about 1700. It now has a building of about 1800 built against it, but the west end once faced an open space, and has the remains of pargetting on it. The whole of this end wall was probably pargetted but it only survives in the gable. The pargetting is a scallop pattern separating a cross-hatched centre from a plain border round the edge. The details of the scallop pattern are only tentative, as the pattern is damaged in some areas and hidden elsewhere.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Article in serial: Shackle, R.. 1986. A Pargetted Gable in Colchester. Colchester Archaeological Group Bulletin Vol. 29, pp.18-19.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • 41 to 44 St Johns Street, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

May 25 2016 1:24PM

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