The Minories
THE MINORIES, 74, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123607
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Minories
- Statutory Address:
- THE MINORIES, 74, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123607
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Minories
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MINORIES, 74, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MINORIES, 74, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00009 25230
Details
1. HIGH STREET 995 (South Side) No 74 (The Minories) TM 0025 SW 6/104 24.2.50.
II* GV
2. 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 117008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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