Coggeshall And The Paycocke House, 1

The next day, July 5th, was to be another three-sight day: the Paycocke House in Coggeshall, Long Meldon House and Garden, and the Long Meldon Church, our first 5-star parish church. Coggeshall is a pretty little town, its Medieval lay-out and many old houses surviving to this day. Its height was in the later Middle Ages, when the English wool industry was thriving. The oldest and best known of Coggeshall's buildings is the Paycocke House, where Thomas Paycocke and wife, wealthy wool merchants, lived and worked. That the house survived, was revived, and ultimately became a National Trust property was the work of several dedicated individuals. This is perhaps the smallest Trust property we have seen, but it will still take two posts to do it justice.

15th and 16th century carving all over

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The house's story--the stories of Paycocke and family, and
of its 20th century revival--are told via these nice woolen
sheets (click to enlarge)

Interior shots of the main dwelling

The furniture is not original, of course, but period

Not sure of Eileen Power's connection, but it's a good story; a Medievalist who
attended Cambridge on a cloth-maker scholarship and went on to further
distinction