Description

TM 38 SE SPEXHALL STONE STREET

2/25 The Huntsman & Hounds

1-9-53

- II*

Inn. Mid C16. 2 storeys and attics; set sideways-on to the street; basic 2- cell internal chimney plan. Timber-framed and rendered; clay pantiled roof. The internal chimney stack has attached hexagonal shafts on a square moulded base, with a recessed blank panel having brick modillions along the top. Cove cornice. 2-light and 3-light old casement windows with a transome and horizontal bars to lights. A plank door at each end of the front. Fine interior. Both ground floor rooms have main beams with multiple roll-moulding and run-off stops and one bay in the room to the west of the stack has exposed joists with a double roll-moulding and run-off stops. Each room has an unusual arched fireplace lintel with multiple roll-mouldings, on the west side with carved Tudor roses also at the springings of the arch and in the centre. The Huntsman and Hounds is already named as an inn in White's Directory of Suffolk, 1844.

Listing NGR: TM3823582638

External Links

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