Site Event/Activity record ECC496 - DOE Listing 83 & 84 High Street, Colchester, 1950

Location

Location 83 & 84 High Street, Colchester
Grid reference Centred TM 00005 25268 (23m by 25m)
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 83 (Gate House) & 84 High Street (East Lodge). Grade I. C16 and C17 building with fine C17 plastered front. Built for William and Susan Boyes. William was a baymaker and mayor. Two storeys and attics, timber-framed and plastered, the roofs tiled. Very picturesque front with 4 projecting gables with moulded bressumer, barge boards and pendants the upper storey also projects with a moulded bressumer and brackets and a wall post dated 1680 and initialled BW and S at the east end, and there are 4 projected bay windows on the 1st floor; the ground floor has 2 projecting bay windows one entrance bay, and a cart entrance. The plaster on the front is rusticated.<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 63.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • The Gate House & East Lodge, 83 & 84 High Street, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

Jan 21 2016 8:12AM

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