Site Event/Activity record ECC788 - Survey of 60 Head Street, Colchester, 1922

Location

Location 60 Head Street, Colchester
Grid reference TL 99421 25014 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

RCHME (Swindon)

Date

1922

Map

Description

RCHME survey of 60 Head Street. The house 'is of two storeys with attics, timber-framed and plastered and with an 18th century front; the roofs are tiled. The cellar is probably medieval but the upper part of the house appears to date from the end of the 17th century. It is of half H-shaped plan with the wings extending towards the E. The back has a coved eaves-cornice of plaster returned round the wings. Inside the building the cellar has rubble walls and heavy hollow-chamfered ceiling beams with carved braces; the main room (now cut up) is of five bays and there is a small projecting room on the W. The staircase to the cellar has some reused 17th century panelling. The upper part of the house contains much bolection-moulded panelling of c1690 and one room on the ground floor has a fireplace with a marble architrave 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 60.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • 60 Head Street, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

Mar 13 2016 5:42PM

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