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Latitude: 52.2251 / 52°13'30"N
Longitude: 1.1816 / 1°10'53"E
OS Eastings: 617394
OS Northings: 263313
OS Grid: TM173633
Mapcode National: GBR VM3.KJX
Mapcode Global: VHLB1.FBHL
Plus Code: 9F4365GJ+2J
Entry Name: The Recess
Listing Date: 9 December 1955
Last Amended: 24 June 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1032324
English Heritage Legacy ID: 281510
ID on this website: 101032324
Location: Debenham, Mid Suffolk, IP14
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Debenham
Built-Up Area: Debenham
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Debenham St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
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DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (east side)
TM 16 SE
6/86 No.17 (The Recess)
9.12.55 (formerly listed as
The Recess)
GV II
House, set at right angles to street behind No.15A (qv. Item 6/85). Early C16
with late C16 in-line addition. Timber framed and rendered, pantiled roof. 3
cells. 2 storeys and attic. Earlier phase has underbuilt jetty to south.
Main front faces south. 3 first floor C19 casements. Ground floor has 2 16-
paned sash windows and a mid C20 casement. 2 doorways with semi-glazed 4-
panel doors, one with overlight. 3 flush rooflights. Internal stack has
axial shaft. Interior. Early C16 work in 2 1/2 bays, with heavy close studding
on upper floor. Bay at west end has heavy joists, very closely-spaced, with
evidence for cross-partition and trimming for stairtrap. To north this bay
had a partitioned through passage from the front range: 2 blocked 4-centre
arched doorways on ground floor, one with leaf-carved spandrels (reversed mid
C20). Centre room has good early C18 corner cupboard, the semi-domed head
with a painting of Bacchus and Ariadne in a chariot, pulled by a lion (in a
panther skin) and leopard, emerging from clouds. Good intact plain crown-post
roof with 2-way bracing. 2-bay addition, one bay containing stack. Intact
first floor studding, one incomplete window with chamfered mullions, clasped
purlin roof. By stack, an C18 first floor stair and newel attic stair.
Listing NGR: TM1739463313
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