The Minories is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.
The Minories
- WRENN ID
- carved-baluster-vermeil
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- The Minories, 74, High Street, CO1 1UE
- OS grid reference
- TM 000 252
- Coordinates
- 51.88974, 0.90514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Minories is an early 16th-century timber-framed building that was remodeled in the later 18th century for Thomas Boggis, a baymaker. The main block features a red brick front with coping and two hipped gables behind it, with tiled roofs. It stands three storeys high and has a five-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars. Above the central Doric porch is a two-storeyed bay window, and there is a modillioned cornice below the third storey, along with a band between the ground and first floors. The arched doorway has a semi-circular fanlight and a six-panel door.
The garden elevation is also made of red brick and has a plastered parapet, a moulded brick cornice, and a three-window range on the upper storey, with the central window being Venetian. The ground floor has five windows, a band, and brick quoins at the corners. The rear wing has undergone significant external alterations and has a hipped roof on the south side. Inside this wing, there is a staircase from around 1600 with carved square newels. The main block's interior features contemporary work, including exposed moulded ceiling beams and many late 18th-century elements, particularly a fine open-string staircase from around 1774. Additionally, there are 16th-century brick cellars with several arched recesses.
Nos 67 to 75 (consecutive) and No 1 Queen Street form a group.
Local climate
The Minories sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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