Images from a Historic Building Recording Survey Adjacent to Domus, The Causeway, Great Horkesley, Essex, 2019.
Colchester Archaeological Trust, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5284/1108984. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1108984
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Introduction
This collection comprises a brief report and images from a historic building recording carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust at the land adjacent to Domus, The Causeway, Great Horkesley, Essex, in September 2019. The aim of the building recording was to provide a detailed record and assessment of the building in advance of the building’s proposed conversion into residential use.
The building recording was carried out to Level 2 survey (Historic England 2016) which is defined as:
"...a descriptive record, made in similar circumstances to Level 1 but when more information is needed. It may be made of a building which is judged not to require a more detailed record, or it may serve to gather data for a wider project. Both the exterior and interior of the building will be seen, described and photographed. The examination of the building will produce an analysis of its development and use and the record will include the conclusions reached, but it will not discuss in detail the evidence on which this analysis is based. A plan and sometimes other drawings may be made but the drawn record will normally not be comprehensive and may be tailored to the scope of a wider project."
In particular the record considered:
- Plan and form of the site
- Materials and method of construction
- Date(s) of the structure
- Original function and layout
- Original and later fixtures and fittings
The significance of the site in its immediate local context. A programme of historic building recording was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust at land adjacent to Domus, Great Horkesley, Essex in September 2019. The building is a nine-bay, single-storey, timber-framed structure located on the east side of "The Causeway", a historic road between Great Horkesley and Colchester. Although on the same footprint as a building shown on the 1839 tithe map, the modern machine-cut timber, rudimentary jointing and regular brickwork of the building's plinth all suggest it was rebuilt in the early/mid 20th century.
