Paycocke's House and Garden

Coggeshall is home to a wealth of fascinating buildings and locations. Among the local highlights are a whole host of historic houses, abbey ruins, a museum, market and the river Blackwater.

Step back in time to the year 1512 and get a fascinating insight into Tudor life as you walk through Coggeshall.

Take a closer look into the lengthy history of this impressive house, how it was constructed, what was here before, and why pilgrims have flocked to the house through the centuries.

The changes that Paycocke’s has undergone in its 500-year history have left unexplained features in the house and garden. Ponder the fake fireplaces, mismatched panelling and missing storeys.

Discover the generations of the family who lived in this house, originally built by a successful woollen cloth merchant, the meaning of their name, and how they lived their lives here.

In the late 16th-century, the Buxton family owned Paycocke's. Find out where the family came from and what kind of people they were.

See why Paycocke's still has the wow factor, after 500 years and many reworkings.

The house – not to mention the garden – at Paycocke’s has a captivating and somewhat confusing history as it’s had many owners, tenants and uses in its long life spanning over five centuries.

Discover more about how the donors of the house Noel and Lucy Buxton restored the house

See how an overgrown industrial yard has become an Arts and Crafts garden, featuring plants that would have been grown here in days gone by, including medieval dye plants and Edwardian fuchsias.