Historic building recording at the Coach House, Wakes Colne Mills, Colchester Road, Wakes Colne, Colchester, Essex, CO6 2BY: May 2021

A programme of historic building recording was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust on the coach house at Wakes Colne Mills, Colchester Road, Wakes Colner, Essex, in May 2021.
The coach house is located within a complex of buldings and associated with Wakes Colne Mills. 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 complex. It was during this period that the coach house was constructed. The coach house is a brick-built structure 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 door coachmen’s accommodation that is the definining feature of a coach house.