Site Event/Activity record ECC495 - DOE Listing 74 High Street (Minories), Colchester, 1950
Location
Location | 74 High Street, Colchester |
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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
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> SCC4 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)
- MCC159 The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester (Building)
Record last edited
Jan 21 2016 8:12AM