Hollytrees Museum

Hollytrees Museum is an allowed to visit, openly claimed exhibition hall in the focal point of Colchester and near Colchester Castle. It is arranged in an eighteenth-century house, which was utilized as a private living arrangement until 1929, when it turned into an exhibition hall. The primary house on the site, known as "Symnells" after its proprietor, was later purchased by the Shaw family, and go from John Shaw to John Shaw III and John Shaw IV.

When he kicked the bucket a minor, the house go into chancery; his mom Jane Lessingham got it however soon died. The current house was developed in for Elizabeth Cornelisen, who had purchased the site from Lessingham's agents and instantly tore down the current structure in poor condition. Construction started on 10 May 1718 at an expense of 630 or more brickwork and tiling; the aggregate renovation was evaluated to have cost 2000.

She kicked the bucket before long, giving the house to her niece, Sarah Creffeild, who left it to her second spouse Charles Gray. It was, around then, known as "Esqr Creffield'. Ownership of the house returned to the Creffeilds; through Thamer Creffeild to James Round, who left to his sibling Charles, who left it to his child Charles Gray Round, who left to it to his nephew James Round. The Rounds at last sold it to the Corporation of Colchester in 1922, a buy paid for secretly by Viscount Cowdray and his wife. It turned into a historical center in 1929.