Colourful Houses in Thaxted

There are many painted houses in Suffolk and Essex, and these are two wonderfully outrageous examples! This area is also known for pargetting, which is where shapes and patterns are carved into the plaster on the outside of buildings. If you look carefully at the ground floor of the pink jettied house on the right, you can see an example of this (better to look in large).

 

Thaxted is a really attractive old town in Essex, with lots of beautiful Medieval and Tudor buildings. We passed through it on our way to a weekend in Suffolk.

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