Site Event/Activity record ECC610 - DOE survey of Stockwell Arms, Colchester, 1950

Location

Location Stockwell Arms, West Stockwell Street, Colchester
Grid reference Centred TL 99588 25424 (13m by 15m)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Department of the Environment (DoE)

Date

1950

Map

Description

DOE survey of The Stockwell Arms Inn. Grade II. Late C15 much restored. Two storeys, timber-framed and plastered, the roofs tiled. Cross wing at north end with the upper storey projecting on the west and north sides, moulded and embattled bressumer, heavy diagonal angle bracket with moulded capital carved with an angel (defaced), curved brackets supporting the overhang with shafts and capitals- though most of these now buried in the modern pebble dash plaster which covers the whole building between exposed studwork, much of it renewed. Two gables at south end front. Interior has moulded ceiling beams.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> LIST: Department of the Environment. 1971. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Colchester (Essex). page 131.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • The Stockwell Arms, 18 West Stockwell Street, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

Mar 22 2016 3:21PM

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