Site Event/Activity record ECC757 - Survey of the Gate House, Colchester, 1922
Location
Location | The Gate House, High Street, Colchester |
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Grid reference | TM 00013 25262 (point) |
Map sheet | TM02NW |
Non Parish Area | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
Technique(s)
Organisation
RCHME (Swindon)
Date
1922
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> SCC3 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)
- MCC160 The Gate House & East Lodge, 83 & 84 High Street, Colchester (Building)
Record last edited
Mar 12 2016 10:32AM