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
- HIGH STREET 995 (South Side) No 74 (The Minories) TM 0025 SW 6/104 24.2.50.
II* GV
- 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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