Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 1912: summary

Historic building recording of a bothy, glasshouse, boilerhouse and other garden structures in the walled kitchen garden at St Osyth’s Priory, St Osyth, Essex, CO16 8GW
by Sarah Veasey

Date report completed: May 2023
Location: St Osyth’s Priory, St Osyth, Essex, CO16 8GW
Map reference(s): TM 11953 16640
File size: 17361KB kb
Project type: Historic Building Recording.
Significance of the results:
Keywords: HBR,

Summary. A programme of historic building recording was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust in the walled garden at St Osyth’s Priory, St Osyth, Essex in February 2023. The garden walls, bothy and boilerhouse are Grade II listed while the glasshouse and other structures are not. The listing proposes a late 17th/early 18th century date for the walled garden. The cartographic evidence, however, disputes this and indicates an initial construction date of between 1858 and 1874. The bothy is the oldest of the structures recorded, built around the same time as the garden wall, and is built over an earlier (probably 16/17th century) garden wall. The glasshouse, boilerhouse and other garden structures all appear to have been constructed around the turn of the 20th century.