Copt Hall Marshes on the remote and beautiful Blackwater Estuary is a noted site for overwintering birds, and can be viewed from a waymarked circular route....
Picturesque watermill. The mill was originally built as a fishing lodge in 1591 and features stepped 'Dutch' gables. It was converted in the 19th century to a mill for fulling (a process in cloth manufacture) and later flour milling. The waterwheel i...
13th-century monastic barn. This majestic building is one of the oldest surviving timber-framed barns in Europe and was originally part of a Cistercian monastery. Restored in the 1980s by The Coggeshall Grange Barn Trust, Braintree DC and Essex CC, i...
Paycocke's is a merchant's house, dating from c.1500. Paycocke's is a fine half-timbered house is evidence of the wealth generated by the East Anglian wool trade in the 15th and 16th centuries. It contains unusually rich panelling and woodcarv...