Flint rubble incorporating English brick and tiles, with dressings of contemporary English brick, roofed with handmade red plain tiles.
Some original plaster survives on the soffits and backs of the arches, with C13 painting (1) of red masonry lines on white in E bay, (2) part of red cruciform nimbus in middle bay, (3) foliate pattern of brown on white on the soffits of all the bays.
Below the band the rubble is exposed, above it is plastered At the threshold of the S door is a small area of mosaic paving, comprising circular tiles inset at the junctions of large square tiles, originally coloured and glazed but now bare.
Shown with a tiled roof and without the midstrey in a aau of 1639 (Essex Record office, D/DOp P.1).
J.S. Gardner reported that the bricks are similar to those of Coxyde Abbey, Belgium, 1214, but produced locally at Tilkey (Coggeshall Abbey and its early brickwork, Journal of the British Archaeological Association (third series) 18, 1955, 19-32 and Plates XI, XIII and XIV). 'This is undoubtedly the finest piece of Early English brickwork in England, and ranks with Bradwell-juxta-Coggeshall for importance' RCHM (Little Coggeshall) 1.