The Minories is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.

The Minories

WRENN ID
carved-baluster-vermeil
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1950
Type
Commercial
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. HIGH STREET 995 (South Side) No 74 (The Minories) TM 0025 SW 6/104 24.2.50.

II* GV

  1. Early C16 timber-framed building remodelled in the later C18 for Thomas Boggis, baymaker. There are modern extensions at the rear. The main block has a red brick front with coping, 2 hipped gables behind the coping the roofs tiled, 3 storeys, 5-window range of double hung sashes with glazing bars, central 2 storeyed bay winow above the central Doric porch; modillioned cornice below 3rd storey, band between ground and 1st floors, arched doorway with semi-circular fanlight, 6-panel door. The garden elevation is of red brick with plastered parapet, moulded brick cornice, 3-window range to the upper storey (central window Venetian) 5 to the ground floor, band, brick quoins at the angles. The rear wing has been much altered externally, the roof is hipped on the south. The interior of this wing has a staircase of circa 1600 with carved square newels. The interior of the main block has contemporary work (exposed moulded ceiling beams) and many late C18 features, particularly a good open-string staircase of circa 1774. There are C16 brick cellars with a number of arched recesses.

Nos 67 to 75 (consec) and No 1 Queen Street form a group

Listing NGR: TM0000925230

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