Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Work at Wakes Colne Mills, Colchester Road, Wakes Cole, Colchester, May 2021

This collection comprises images and brief from historic building recording work at Wakes Colne Mills, Colchester Road, Wakes Cole, Colchester. This work was undertaken by Colchester Archaeological Trust in May 2021. The coach house is located within a complex of buildings associated with Wakes Colne Mill. It is thought that there has been some form of mill on the site since 1066, but the 19th century saw a period of huge expansion for the mill. It was during this period the coach house was constructed. The coach house is a brick-built building with timber-framed roof trusses. All of the timbers are machine-sawn and many display good examples of Baltic timber marks. Although known as a coach house the building was more probably utilised as a stable block and appears to lack the first floor coachmen's accommodation that is the defining feature of a coach house.