Description

1.
924 FARSHAM STREET
(North Side)
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No 14
TM 3389 1/35 9.5.49.

II GV

2.
Early C17, reputed to have been built in 1620. 3 storey. Front C19 Suffolk
yellow brick, low parapet. Pantiles. 3 window at 1st floor with central
glazing bars only. 6-panel door, panelled reveals, enriched consoles,
key and bedmould remains of original entablature. Mid C19 porch with
slender columns, entablature and cast iron ornament. Interior; panelled
room, right, with fluted pilasters and cornice. In 1933, 35 horses skulls
found fixed in rows between the joists of the floor of this room, said
to be music room, to improve acoustics. (No 16, adjoining originally
part of this room; similar skulls found under corresponding room on opposite
side of the house). Original staircase gone and many other features.
Panelled room used as hairdressing saloon. Nos 14 and 16 are 2 of the
few buildings which survived the fire of 1688.

Nos 2 to 40 (even) form group

Listing NGR: TM3354889862

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527857

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