DOI Heft:
No. 199 (October, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0072
Recent Desigiis in Domestic Architecture
"paycockes," coggeshall : the large gateway
pride and even ostentation, frankly expressed in
the heraldic ornament, the exuberance of the
wood-carving and the patterns in the brickwork
between the half timbering. It is known locally
as "Paycockes," so called after the first family who
dwelt there. On the carved oak joists of the hall
ceiling are the initials of Thomas and Margaret
Paycocke, to whom the house was devised by John
Paycocke, father of Thomas, by whom it was no
doubt built, and there is the same merchant's mark
that may be seen in the churchyard on the grave-
stone of Robert Paycocke. They also occur on
the oak frieze running along the overhanging upper
floor. On the beam across the ingle fireplace
(page 52) the merchant's mark appears again with
their names on the scrolls, filling in the spandrels
of the arched and moulded lintel.
In course of time the Paycockes intermarried
with the Buxton family. At various times until
1746 the house appears to have been in the occu-
pation or ownership of people named Buxton, but
after that it was not until quite recently (viz., in
1906) that it once more came into possession of
the family through Mr. Noel E. Buxton, M.P.,
a direct descendant of its medieval occupants. It
is he who has had the restoration carried out.
Though not strictly coming within the limits of
our title, it may not be out of place to give an
account here of an interesting mediaeval house at
Coggeshall, in Essex, recently restored by Mr.
Ernest Beckwith. Work of this kind is, of course,
frequently entrusted to architects, and no doubt
in many of our country towns and villages there
are other old houses which, in the hands of a
capable restorer could be rescued from decrepitude
and become pleasant abodes ' for many future
generations. For the following information con-
cerning this house we are indebted to Mr. G. LI.
Morris.
Coggeshall, aforetime among the chief clothing
towns of Essex, was noted far and wide in the
later Middle Ages for its " Coxairwhites." Carved
friezes over some of the street fronts and other
portions of isolated detail hint at the wealth of
bygone merchant traders and the cunning skill
of Coggeshall craftsmen. In West Street is a two-
storied dwelling, one of the comparatively few
examples remaining of the handiwork of these
craftsmen, and their generous use and treatment
of materials in the building of a merchant's home
during the days of the Tudors. For the most
part the house reveals an art simple, vigorous and
robust, but not lacking altogetherja certain homely "paycockes," coggeshall: the hall
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"paycockes," coggeshall : the large gateway
pride and even ostentation, frankly expressed in
the heraldic ornament, the exuberance of the
wood-carving and the patterns in the brickwork
between the half timbering. It is known locally
as "Paycockes," so called after the first family who
dwelt there. On the carved oak joists of the hall
ceiling are the initials of Thomas and Margaret
Paycocke, to whom the house was devised by John
Paycocke, father of Thomas, by whom it was no
doubt built, and there is the same merchant's mark
that may be seen in the churchyard on the grave-
stone of Robert Paycocke. They also occur on
the oak frieze running along the overhanging upper
floor. On the beam across the ingle fireplace
(page 52) the merchant's mark appears again with
their names on the scrolls, filling in the spandrels
of the arched and moulded lintel.
In course of time the Paycockes intermarried
with the Buxton family. At various times until
1746 the house appears to have been in the occu-
pation or ownership of people named Buxton, but
after that it was not until quite recently (viz., in
1906) that it once more came into possession of
the family through Mr. Noel E. Buxton, M.P.,
a direct descendant of its medieval occupants. It
is he who has had the restoration carried out.
Though not strictly coming within the limits of
our title, it may not be out of place to give an
account here of an interesting mediaeval house at
Coggeshall, in Essex, recently restored by Mr.
Ernest Beckwith. Work of this kind is, of course,
frequently entrusted to architects, and no doubt
in many of our country towns and villages there
are other old houses which, in the hands of a
capable restorer could be rescued from decrepitude
and become pleasant abodes ' for many future
generations. For the following information con-
cerning this house we are indebted to Mr. G. LI.
Morris.
Coggeshall, aforetime among the chief clothing
towns of Essex, was noted far and wide in the
later Middle Ages for its " Coxairwhites." Carved
friezes over some of the street fronts and other
portions of isolated detail hint at the wealth of
bygone merchant traders and the cunning skill
of Coggeshall craftsmen. In West Street is a two-
storied dwelling, one of the comparatively few
examples remaining of the handiwork of these
craftsmen, and their generous use and treatment
of materials in the building of a merchant's home
during the days of the Tudors. For the most
part the house reveals an art simple, vigorous and
robust, but not lacking altogetherja certain homely "paycockes," coggeshall: the hall
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