Colchester: Houses and other Historic Buildings


The Stockwell Arms (c.1380s)	Houses beside the river, Middleborough.	Houses on Stockwell Street

Timperleys, now the Clock Museum	The Old Siege House, now a restaurant. There are still bullet marks in the timbers from the Civil War.	Peake's House in the Dutch Quarter

House of Jane Taylor (1783-1824), writer of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. East Stockwell Street.	Hollytrees Museum	East Hill Post Office, which closed finally in 2003.

The Rose and Crown, on East Street	Colchester is the largest garrison in England. The garrison has many beautiful old historic buildings.	Greyfriars College

Essex /
Niklaus Pevsner, revised by Enid Radcliffe (London: Penguin, 1965) [The buildings of England series]

"Colchester Castle is the largest keep in existence. It measures 151 by 110 ft, that is considerably more than the White Tower in London. It belongs to the same type of late 11th century keeps as the White Tower, the type often called hall keeps, that is buildings much broader than the usual tower keeps and not so high in proportion. Like the White Tower, Colchester has a chapel projecting with an apse, and the main rooms were subdivided, perhaps because, if undivided, they would have been too large to cover them with timber ceilings. The keep was originally faced with ..." p.