Description

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST)
TM 0855

3/117 Nos. 78 and 80

9.12.55

- II

Two houses, built C15 as a 3-cell open hall house. Alterations of C16 and
C19. 2 storeys. 5 windows. Timber-framed and pebble-dashed. Plaintiled
roofs with rear chimneys of red brick. C19 small-pane sashes. No.78 has a
pair of late C19 shop windows with large panes, and No.80 an earlier C19
square bay shop window with flat leaded roof. No.78 has a C19 4-panelled door
(the upper pair glazed), and No.80 a plank door possibly of C17, adapted to a
stable-type door. No.78 comprises a formerly-open hall with a storeyed end
cell to right. No.80 contains another storeyed cell. Some widely-spaced
studwork exposed in No.80 with convex arched wind-bracing. Complete coupled-
rafter roof with smoke-blackening above the hall. A rear wing of 3 bays was
added in mid C16 to No.80 with crown post roof, the posts square and plank-
braced 2 ways. On the left hand gable, now facing into the roofspace of the
adjacent later C18 building, is an oval cartouche in raised plasterwork
bearing the date 1712 and initials T.F.C. The border is embedded with
fragments of coloured glass.

Listing NGR: TM0882055109

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552604

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