Site Event/Activity record ECC757 - Survey of the Gate House, Colchester, 1922

Location

Location The Gate House, High Street, Colchester
Grid reference TM 00013 25262 (point)
Map sheet TM02NW
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

RCHME (Swindon)

Date

1922

Map

Description

RCHME survey of the Gate House and house adjoining. The house is 'two storeys with attics, timber framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled. The main block was built late in the 16th century or early in the 17th century, but in the second half of the latter century the S front was rebuilt and an L-shaped addition made on the N side. The upper storey projects on the whole of the S front and has a moulded bressumer and large shaped and moulded brackets; a wall-post at the East end has a panel with the initials and date WBS 1680 (probably for William Boys and Sarah his wife). The four gables also project and have a moulded bressumer and barge boards with carved pendants. The wall faces below the gables are treated with rusticated plasterwork. There are four projecting bay-windows on the first floor, and in the middle is an oval window with a moulded frame. There are also three projecting bays on the ground floor, the space under the fourth above being occupied by a cart way. Inside the building there is some late 17th century panelling and a door of the same date. Condition - Good'.<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Monograph: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1922. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): Essex, (North-East). Volume III. page 58.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

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

Record last edited

Mar 12 2016 10:32AM

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