Site Event/Activity record ECC495 - DOE Listing 74 High Street (Minories), Colchester, 1950

Location

Location 74 High Street, Colchester
Grid reference Centred TM 00014 25223 (23m by 39m)
Map sheet TM02NW
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Department of the Environment (DoE)

Date

1950

Map

Description

DOE survey of No 74 High Street (Minories). Grade II*. Early C16 timber framed building remodelled in the later C18 for Thomas Boggis, baymaker. There are modern extensions at the rear. The main block has a red brick front with coping, 2 hipped gables behind the coping the roofs tiled, 3 storeys, 5 window range of double hung sashes with glazing bars, central 2 storied bay window above the central Doric porch; modillioned cornice below 3rd storey, band between ground and 1st floor, arched doorway with semi-circular fanlight, 6 panel door. The garden elevation is of red brick with plastered parapet, moulded brick cornice, 3 window range to the upper storey (central window Venetian) 5 to the ground floor, band, brick quoins at the angles. The rear wing has been much altered externally, the roof is hipped on the south. The interior of this wing has a staircase of circa 1600 with carved square newels. The interior of the main block has contemporary work (exposed moulded ceiling beams) and many late C18 features, particularly a good open-string staircase of circa 1774. There are C16 brick cellars with a number of arched recesses<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> LIST: Department of the Environment. 1971. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Colchester (Essex). page 59,60.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

Jan 21 2016 8:12AM

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