Site Event/Activity record ECC788 - Survey of 60 Head Street, Colchester, 1922
Location
Location | 60 Head Street, Colchester |
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Grid reference | TL 99421 25014 (point) |
Map sheet | TL92NE |
Non Parish Area | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
Technique(s)
Organisation
RCHME (Swindon)
Date
1922
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> SCC3 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)
- MCC180 60 Head Street, Colchester (Building)
Record last edited
Mar 13 2016 5:42PM